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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Sony caught out -- faking Blu-ray

Sony had a celebration in New York to mark 10 years of Vaio, and showed a forthcoming AR model with a built-in Blu-ray drive. PC Magazine's Lance Ulanoff went along. On Gearlog, he reports:



On one table Sony execs proudly displayed two ARs playing early Blu-ray content: The House of Flying Daggers. They even had the Blu-ray packaging. So exciting...but WAIT! I went ahead and ejected one of the Blu-ray drives to see my first Blu-ray disc. Instead, I found a crummy, old school DVD+R, complete with the Sharpie-written, House of Flying Daggers. Apparently even Sony can't get its hands on Blu-ray content!



(Charles Arthur adds: contrary to the first comment below, if you follow the link you find an update to the post: "Many readers are saying that this story was faked. Well, I'm here to tell you it's far from a lie, and I have more pictures to prove it!" We await any Sony comment.)

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