So Lance pushes the button on one laptop and the drive for the other one ejects??? I don't get how he can go in for the kill on a different laptop. Looks like he waited till it was all voer to run in and place the disc.

Did Sony actually annouce that the Vaio was indeed playing a Bluray or did it simply have a demo of a partial high-def burned movie for demo with a mockup of a Bluray case nearby to show the new case design?

The laptop that you see Lance using is a CAKE. It's a mockup of a Vaio laptop to commemorate the tenth year of the line. RTFS. This kind of behavior is not at all uncommon at trade shows, especially when a technology is up-and-coming.

The tray that opened is different then the one in the pic with him pressing the button. This is obviously a fake article. :/

Did Lance kill JFK?

I goofed on the sequence of photos. It's fixed now. The first photo is indeed of the VAIO cake, but the rest of the photos are not edible; they are of the VAIO AR series laptop in which Lance discovered that the DVD playing was NOT a Blu-ray disc.

If Lance really opened the disc tray therefore stopping the only alleged Bluray playing device in the entire party how come no Sony Reps didn't notice him doing this? Why didn't the Sony Ninjas come down through the ceiling tiles and slice Lance's jugular and take away the DVD+R imposter all before anyone could notice?

Am I missing something or what? How do you guys know that the tray is different? I'm sorry if it's obvious, but I just can't seem to make out.

The PC that he is "pressing the button" on is a cake, as noted on the white warning sign as well as the subtitle to the image. The additional photos that show the Bluray issues stand for themselves. do some more detective work when pointing out these "obvious" fakes.

Master San, I don't think the Sony reps were too happy that he did this, but a reporter's gotta do what a reporter's gotta do! As for the Sony Ninjas, they couldn't be reached for comment.

sorry, cannot let the random acts of retardness in some of the posts above go: to MEME and DAVID!!! the laptop in the top picture (the one where he is apparently 'pressing the button'... that is a motherfucking cake!!! ask your self one question: have you ever seen a laptop that fucking big??? please dont answer yes. then look at the pictures below - all clearly the same computer...

I am happy to know that I will be able to play DVD+R on the Blu-Ray player I get. Thanks for the good info.

Why did they put a DVD+R in a cake?

The photos only show a VAIO with a DVD + R hanging out. There is nothing here to say that this is the same disc Sony used for a purported HD demo. How does the DVD + R pictured = the demo disc?

You probably slipped that in there...

I do not think that they would stick a true Blu Ray copy of the movie where it can be stolen by any person that walks up. stupid bstrds.

If the laptop is made out of cake, then what is the point? It's clearly stagd. What, the DVD made out of icing too now?

I work for Sony Corporation of America, and yes, its true. I cant say why we did it, because it's all tied to the illuminati and 9/11. But know, that we did it, in conjuction with Bush's cabinet, for the good of the country. If i would've put the original bluray disc in there, guess what...the terrorists would've won! We'd also like to say, no illegal immigrants were contracted on the making of the cake. Thank you all, and God Bless America. Good night, and good luck. SONY Inspiring Gifts... from life to living room

Sigh...its a party/celebration to celebrate the 10th anniversary of VAIO. THATS why there's a cake there. Oh and see the BD logo on the laptop with the DVD+R?

Ok. We admit it. We were trying to come up with ways to get hits to our website. We knew if we somehow could make it look like Sony was caught in a wb of lies, every gaming and electronics site would link to us. We would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

LOL, some1 edit this pictrure with the "OWNED" thingy xD

What was running on the other laptop (the one on the right)?

IT'S ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO PUT CONTENT OTHER THAN DVD VIDEO ONTO DVDS! OMG!

The glowing BD is not glowing, it's reflecting the light from the camera flash. I too also believe that Sony is still keeping the Blue-Ray disc out of public reach being the disc is the technology to have many GB's of compressed data on one Disc. I wasn't there and I'me assuming that the main reason the laptop is there is to promote it's look and size, the video played is just a demo movie. And yes the movie case is to help promote what the cases will look like when it's released. If you noticed they barely covered blue-ray at E3 or the broadcast expo that just occured. They aren't ready to present Blue-Ray yet

What was running on the other laptop? Hmmmmm. They couldn't have possibly been showing the difference between Blu-Ray and regular dvd's, could they? Think for yourselves people! Quit letting everyone influence you!!!

I was going to trick her into to confessing :)

I was confused by the quotes at the bottom of the picture because it first read that he was in the act of pressing the button on the cake then it was later changed to "playing with the cake". Just goes to show don't believe what you read. Did Sony say the laptop was playing Blu-Ray discs?

Well, I obviously can't weigh in since I wasn't there, but all the pictures after the cake are of the same laptop (see the shiny label)? Lol @ the poor accomplice, er, woman sitting there. It's definitely embarassing to Sony, yeah, and I don't see how it helps them to "showcase" a new format by showing an allegedly markedly lower-quality disc. Perhaps it's possible that they've got the movie encoded on the disc as a higher-quality movie file, and not as native DVD video? Anyhow, I think everybody should ask themselves what the significance of this finding is when all is said and done. What matters is that the hardware shows up...

Wait... if it was blue-ray content you wouldn't be able to copy more then 30ish minutes of blue-ray content. That part of the movie is more then 30 minutes in...

What you guys need to know that it is possible to put HD content on a DVD. Not, I repeat not, the whole movie but a portion of it; thats why Blu-Ray is an innovation, it holds 25/50GB not the 8GB that current DVDs top out at. They had no need, nor the time to play the whole movie at the event and the movie is not yet released in the US so why would they put it in an easily accessible drive so it could be stolen. Think before you speak people! Also, as far as I know this was an event for the 10th anniversary of the VAIO not specifically to show off Blu-Ray technology.

Just take out the photo of the cake already, it's confusing the little kids and adds nothing to the story.

I mean, the product isn't out, sony was just displaying it. So what if they were being phony or the authors being phony? People defending keep getting more proof that limits their excuses for Sony, people accusing just keep saying Sony will fail. Blah blah, we know which side you're on, as if you'll change your mind. It's to a point where your opinion doesn't actually count becuase any blatantly biased person could take the same exact photos for golden proof or crap conspiracy based on your opinion of Sony. Not on actual logic. One can clearly see you're basing your logic off of your beliefs, instead of basing beliefs off of logic.

Why didn't you take a picture of the computer screen while you were ejecting? And noone cared that you were touching this valuable equipment? Give me a break. And by the way, this wasn't an official SONY event.

Yeah, maybe next time take the laptop with you and show it around the forum.... or better, kidnap the Sony boss and make him confess. jeeez if you can't even tell the difference between a cake and a laptop....

Why would Sony use a COPY of a movie they OWN in DVD format? Simple answer, it was compressed to exagerate the difference between DVD and Blu-ray and from what I read in the article, it worked :-(

Or, you know, it might be because they didn't want anyone to just walk away with a copy of the DVD, and that they didn't feel they had to worry about the Blu-Ray disc so much because there aren't any BR drives out there yet. Nah, couldn't be that.

A bit OT but... What I don't like, is their persistence, on putting cheesy fragile slow pathetic trays on their laptops instead of the 10 times better slot mechanisms.

Sam, you might do well to try working on laptop repair / tech support. When slot drives jam - boy does everything go pear shaped. IIRC IBM used to have slot drives on their ThinkPads at one stage. They went back to tray because the slots were just too problematic. But if you want to suckle from the teat of Jobs and go for style over something that you can at least eject when it eventually breaks, be my guest.

Mike, I've been using Slot PC drives on my pc and on my G4 laptop for years without any problems. Recently I was happy to know that Plextor produced a slot version of their new burner too. Also my next laptop will probably be the new QOSMIO G30 WUXGA HD DVD etc with SLOT drive. (Note:I didn't choose the laptop because of the slot drive!). I said 10 times better, meaning in usablility NOT in mechanism quality. Now if they have problems with their slot drive mechanisms, they SHOULD design better mechanisms, NOT go back to trays! Because as long as rotated disks exists, slot drives are the obvious best choice in terms of usability. And don't tell me they have reached a barrier in slot mechanism design! That's ridiculous! I bet it can be designed 20 times better! (I could do it!)

Hmm looks to me like someone had to make a bootleg copy of that movie for the DVD+R. Send in the MPAA!

Why Sony hasn't immediately answered this officially to PCMag bothers me. Lance, with the two machines side by side, could it be that they were showing "regular" DVD content on the left with "blu ray" content on the right? Had you ejected the disc from the other laptop? I don't believe the picture was faked, nor was it likely supposed to be BR HD, but just a "side by side comparison" of the same source material. But then, I wasn't there - and there seem to be enough foul mouth experts and skeptics here who for whatever reason think they know better?

We can also notice the position, the laptop showing the DVD+R is on the left side of the table, i think its not possible he could've switched the laptops. And he just happend to have a sharpie and a scratched DVD+R in the pocket? Nobody saw him? right...

Tell me how you can prove that footage played was from the DVD+R shown in the drive. Could the DVD+R not have been the comparison disc while the Blu-ray disc was elsewhere? Pictures of a DVD+R doesn't mean anything unless theres video footage of that DVD+R being put in, and the Sony reps claiming that its Blu-ray.

You fucking idiots, read the fucking posts. It was a fake by a little bitch that wanted attention. I swear to fucking god. Quit being lemmings, stop taking everything you hear as gospel for fuck sake.

look at the dvd. it has a bluray compatable sticker on it. i think it's obvious sony just ****ed up.

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>> look at the dvd. it has a bluray compatable sticker on it. i think it's obvious sony just ****ed up. And the other laptop does not? Convenient that with the angle of the shot, the exact spot where there would be a BR sticker is blocked... For everyone who hasn't figured it out yet and think all the skeptics are just Sony fanboys... THIS ARTICLE IS A SHAM.

What I don't understand is with the laptop having a sign on the keyboard that clearly says "Please do not touch" why did he eject the disk?

>> look at the dvd. it has a bluray compatable sticker on it. i think it's obvious sony just ****ed up. And the other laptop does not? Convenient that with the angle of the shot, the exact spot where there would be a BR sticker is blocked... For everyone who hasn't figured it out yet and think all the skeptics are just Sony fanboys... THIS ARTICLE IS A SHAM.

What a amazing. Sony lies again? Well, Blu-ray videos were released in market now So there is no trouble with preparing Blu-ray sample. but it can be there is problem with Blu-rau drive for laptop.

How do we know he di just remove it and place another cd. lets all check the blu-ray websites and find the truth

>>it IS possible to put HD on a DVD Posted by: Erik Tuesday, May 16, 2006 6:31 PM>They had no need, nor the time to play the whole movie at the event and the movie is not yet released in the US so why would they put it in an easily accessible drive so it could be stolen.

sony uses verbatim dvd-r's instead of sonys... haw haw

I would like to see a higher res copy of the second photo. It seems likely (from some acounts,) that one laptop is playing the HD/Blu-Ray version, and the other playing the SD/old-fashioned-DVD version. Does the sign seen in the second picture say that? And did he try to eject BOTH computer's discs, to find out for sure?

> sony uses verbatim dvd-r's instead of sonys... haw haw and apple's lawyers use microsoft entourage haw haw

ugh, idiots... Look at the Blu-Ray hologram sticker! You CANT FAKE THAT!

Will you take 5 secs to look at the pictures FFS? They both have Blu-Ray hologram stickers.

OMFG What the hell! Who cares about the cake, or the logo, or the disk, or the strange woman in pic #2. Blu-Ray will will the format war and here's why. 1. Blue is a better color than red, any day of the week and twice on Sunday. 2. PS3 is better than 360. 3. The PORN industry support Blu-Ray. 4. Microsoft is Evil! 5. 50GB is more than 30GB. 6. Microsoft is EVIL! 7. Apple supports Blu-Ray. OK, now for #7... No I'm not some Apple freak... But, I tell you, I use my IPOD because I LOVE IT! I use my Windows PC with Office, etc because I have to (and hate it). TELL ME you've never lost a Word or Excel document in a Windows crash... yeah, I thought so!

Personally, I can fake just about anything in Photoshop when I have the time to waste for the attention. It's only pixels in a 2D array. These aren't even high-res photo's. I think I could have some fun plastering Lances receding hairline on various things...for the attention...but I've got better things to do. I have a life.

Laptop on the left has a blueray sticker. Laptop on the right has no sticker - its not obscured, its not there. Cake laptop is obscured but i don't think is really relevant. Laptop with the blueray sticker has a dvd in it. Sure the disks could be swapped, but at least get the above bits right please commentators. Oh yeah, and to fake it, I'm pretty sure both laptops (but not the cake) have harddisks that might hold a full blueray disk full of information. Think about that.

They tricked you all. Its not a DVD-R or a DVD+R....its actually a DVD+RW. Why do so many people have a hard time believing that Sony duped you. Looks like pretty good evidence to me. Companies dupe us all the time. Its how business works and the world goes around. And why lawyers are so rich.

So it's not even an original DVD but an illegal copy too it seems, tsk tsk. Perhaps sony should stick with empty plastic boxes like with their PS3 showings.

Before you start, I know sony owns half the moviecompanies so presumably also the one that released that movie, I was jesting you see.

...that you took this bait hook line and sinker. Think before you get on the train bound for Moron Central with the rest of the rabid anti-Sony brigade.

Microsoft is evil? But Sony is the nice guy? Wow, you people are fucking morons. "I love this corporate entity and not that one". Damn, anyone defending any company that isn't being paid to defend them is one sold out shithead. Keep sucking the cock of corporations. "Gee Sony, thanks for 600 game machine just to further your support of a disc format". Believe it, companies lie. Keep on blindly following.

Its a fake. They are different laptops. not to mention that sony would have used a SONY DVD!!! AND THAT THEY OWN HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and wouldnt have to have copied it...

Its a fake. They are different laptops. not to mention that sony would have used a SONY DVD!!! AND THAT THEY OWN HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and wouldnt have to have copied it...

The Cake is just that, a cake. Just like the one you eat on your birthday every year. He is not pushing any of the buttons on, The Cake. You people need to look at the pictures and use your brains a little longer than 5 seconds. The DVD+R disc is a +R disc not a RW. The RW symbol is on there to show that it is compatable with the RW drives too. Its just like the reason Coca-cola is puting both the standard serving size and the package size on the nutrition facts label. People are too stupid and lazy to multiple by 2.5 to figure out the total in the bottle.

NOTE: I find it amusing that even after this is found to be untrue, a new heading as not been added at the top to clarify the matter. Kalik makes a good point. After all, for the site to put up an article like this that is obviously wrong, we can come to 2 reasonable conclusions. 1) The website admins made an honest mistake due to their lack of concern to report anything resembling the truth combined with an overall ineptness. 2) The website admins were attempting to manipulate everyone into coming to the site because it doesn't warrant substantial traffic.

Dear kalik (rdjam), How unsurprising to find you here as well :)

Who cares if it was Blu-ray or not, the real question was why were they using a PIRATE DVD?

Why is Lance touching the *&#$# cake when it is written DO NOT TOUCH THE *&#$# cake???

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If sony own the rights to the movie they can make as many copies as they like.

LanceFanBoy: Why is Lance touching the *&#$# cake when it is written DO NOT TOUCH THE *&#$# cake??? BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO MORON TO SEE THAT HE ACTUALLY PRETENDS TOUCHING AND OPERATING THE CAKE FOR THE PUTPOSE OF PHOTOGRAPH! ULTRA LOW INTELLIGENCE PEOPLE SHOULD BE PROHIBITED FROM POSTING!!! ALSO, YOU KIDS, GO TO PLAY SOMEWHERE ELSE!

Hi all, News sites and newspapers from all over the world are copying your stupid story here. Now that there is at least some doubt (I'd say you all concluded that this story is the fake) please change the title. News papers don't take the time to read all the comments. And its pretty annoying to see this pop up everywear in Europe as if it was proven by the supreme court (its actually called different here, but who cares :P )!!

a bluray drive can play other formats u brainless d***head.

Well... Sony faked Gran Turismo HD on E3 (it was playing on a PC and not on PS3-Hardware), Sony stole the Idea of a Console-Controller from Wii but missed to integrate all features, and finally they showed a faked BluRay-Laptop. Well this won't be the last fake from Sony, and it was not the first one. Sony steels, fakes and lies like before. I have no doubt that this company did it.

For everyone who hasn't figured it out yet and think all the skeptics are just Sony fanboys... absolutely correct.... Sony employs people especially to write in forums and blogs, but they are usually so stupid that you can spot their posts a mile off... and they are so easy to upset. SONYS NEXT FLOP. Sony has just announced that they are dropping the§ music format Atrac, another dead Sony format, to join Minidisk, beta, UMD, ohhh god the list just goes on and on..... ohhh, guess BlueRay is next.

Great job Ryo!!! Not only have you managed to make a comment without reading any of the previous comments therefore barring you from having any knowledge of whats really going on but, you'll also managed to promote the rumor spreading of another completely bogus story and smeared an industry move that allowed Sony to be competative. What next? Playstation stole the D-pad from NES!?! One, must remeber that companies make money by competeing with each other so, if another company comes out with a unique market trait you either have two choices stay the same and hope that the new feature isn't excepted by the public or embrace it yourself and compete head to head with them. Microsoft chose the latter and Sony chose thae later. As time goes on we shall see if this new feature is embraced by not only the public but, more importantly by developers. On, the other hand the whole rootkit fiasco was completely foolish on Sony's part but, as history has told us companies are much like growing children sometimes they come home with an "A+" branded test that gets hung on the fridge. Other times they pull little Kelly's hair and get sent to the office. One, thing should be put into perspective before firing up your anti-Sony Flame engines, consider Microsoft's history with poor decision making (I think Windows ME should speak for itself) and Nintendo's follys (anyone remeber VirtualBoy, ok now anyone still useing one? yeah thought so). So, in closing, remeber that once Sony gets out of the corner for pushing Mike down in the playground we should be their supporting them because, looking at Sony's track record I sense another "A+" in there future whether it's in the form of a PS3 or Bluray.

it's all fake. The demo is done in russia, evidenced by the fat lady in the flower curtain dress. The hand scribble on the disc is clearly of american origin. maybe a spy living in russia?

it's all fake. The demo is done in russia, evidenced by the fat lady in the flower curtain dress. The hand scribble on the disc is clearly of american origin. maybe a spy living in russia?

those pictures of "evidence" were forged.....why didn't this guy film it? Is video too hard to forge? Of course it is!

Check out post #8 http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=54374

Whinge, whine, flame, pout - Sony fanboys and shills are taking over as possibly the most annoying lifeforms on the face of the planet. Last one to leave the Earth, please turn the lights out.

Oh man you tards all fell for it. Gearlog.com should just pack it up. All credibility is lost.

The "It's the wrong laptop! It's hanging over the edge!" crowd will be disappointed to learn that when you bump up the brightness and contrast, it does not appear to be hanging over the edge, but rather is sitting on top of the laptop on the left. It doesn't look like they had enough room to eject the disc so they lifted the laptop on the right, popped out the tray, let it hang over the laptop on the left and took the picture. Adjusted image: http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2302/sonyfake7zv.jpg

I actually own 2 virtual boys, one is a bit busted, and i still you is on occasion. Wario land is one of the best platform games ever made. I highly recommend it. You can probably pick up the system and game for less than 50 on e-bay. Oh and i don't know what to think fo this article... unless i see a shot of the actuall blu-ray disk though i tend to think thre is a chance this might be true. Other sites have their own pics of what was in the one drive... why did NO ONE open the other?

You moron, of course it looks that way when you turn up the brightness and contrast. Look at it without it, and the reflection where the audio ports are are FLUSH with the table. There's nothing underneath it. Dumbass. Someone thought they caught Sony pulling a fast one, and instead they're the ones pulling the fakery. Just apologize, let you world know you screwed up and be done with it. You know why Sony hasn't said anything? Because they're just laughing at your asses.

Mr. Lund: I don't know which image you're looking at, but if you'll notice from the photoset, the tops of the notebook cases are clearly black whereas the table is blue. The laptops are not stacked at all, they just ejected the drive of the machine playing the normal DVD. In the earlier comments, it has already been pointed out that the notebook on the RIGHT is the one playing the Blu-Ray content, not the left. They simply ejected the wrong tray and tried to claim otherwise.

However, the report clearly claims that the laptop on the LEFT is supposed to be playing a Blu-Ray DVD, when in fact it wasn't - it was the one on the right. In any case, that high contrast image doesnt even show a second laptop - it shows the left side of the podium the laptop was sitting on, extending all the way to the floor. Are you blind?

its looks good... blue ray mr arse

WOW... just ... wow. Another screw up on Sony's part...

So who cares about the blu-ray crap! crap or not... Whats up with the pirated movie disk?!?!

You idiots this IS NOT a DVD -R +R or RW this is quite clearly a CARTRIDGE! and this is not a CAKE because cakes cannot play any types of media. Also there is wood in the background which proves this is real because wood is made out of paper which grows on trees. The other laptop is not really there it's a hologram which you can quite clearly see if you look really closely at the blueray hologram, which is a hologram on a hologram.

These comments sure are fun to read. Why didn't he make a video of this whole thing? Perhaps because he didn't think there would be a DVD in the drive. Do you film everything? Prove to me that your holiday photos are real! It's not a pirated movie if Sony owns the rights to copy it. Why use a DVD+R and not the original DVD? Perhaps they just wanted to show a part of the movie and this was the easier way to do that. Also, you can clearly see that the cake is not a cake at all, because cakes are not shiny, Elvis never did no drugs, the moon landing was a fake and there was a second gunman.

Whoever wrote the title on the DVD+R obviously was in a rush. The reason behind that, I dont know. Maybe he was rushing to do a lame-ass prank on SONY or simply the SONY person who prepared the disc has very bad handwriting. I opt for the first possibility. Looks too bad for a proper adult handwriting. 3:/

sony is IP GateKeeper***.Sony.CO.JP

I have heard this news in Japanese-blog, and immedeately think that Sony had cheated, been revealed it, and is using "GateKeeper" again in America too. If you are interested in "what is GateKeeper(in short 'GK')," you'd better search on the Web with keyword "GateKeeper" in Japanese. There are a lot of websites explaining what is "GateKeeper" and what "GateKeeper" has done. In short, "GateKeeper" is the name of political and economical MANEUVERERS who accesse to the Web and do "troubleshooting," of Anti-Sony movements.

So I guess the nest one who says "It's FAKE!" will be a Gatekeeper? Let's wait and see...

Um, guys? It's already been noted that Lance screwed up and jumped to conclusions without doing the proper research; one of the laptops was displaying DVD video while the other was displaying Blu-ray to compare the two formats. Read the retraction and announcement here: http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/17/11993.aspx

so how did they make a copy of the movie onto the dvd? I didn't think you could copy movie dvds.

Why the bloody hell do y'all care if it is faked or not? I would care if I were to actually buy one of these laptops and find out it didn't play BR ... Faked or not, this ARTICLE AND DISCUSSION is total bullshit. Wait, why am I on this website? /Alt-F4.

Isn't it amazing that nobody notices Sony's real deception? They were comparing a blu-ray disc with a COPIED dvd. So, to make a copy from a DVD movie onto a 4.7 dvd+r, they had to recode the dvd to fit on it, effectively lowering the quality of the movie being shown. Most people should try and use their brain sometimes instead of using the abusive language they seem to like so much.

One of the commonets posted on the 16th by Erik states that the movie is not yet released in the states. You are obviously wrong, as any movie of good caliber that is released in the States is also released in Canada, and I own a copy of that movie, so it IS released in the States. Go check your local Wal-mart or video store, or HMV or something before making stupid comments.

I guess you see what you want to see. I see a picture of a cake on a foil-wrapped caked base on one table, a picture of two laptops, side by side (the one on the left has a Blu-ray logo, the other does not) on a completely different table, a head-on picture of the Blu-ray laptop, and then a closeup of the Blu-ray laptop with the tray ejected and a DVD+R with "House of Flying Daggers" scrwaled on it. Is it possible that the journo put that DVD+R in for a joke? Yes. Is it possible that Sony used a DVD+R with a relatively short HD clip on it to highlight the quality difference between HD and ordinary SD DVDs? Yes. Is it possible that the person responsible for these pictures is not terribly fond of Sony? Yes. Is it possible that this thread and all others on this same subject are made up almost entirely of pro and anti Sony fanboys (the minority being apathetic to the whole thing)? YES! It matters little. All Sony was demonstrating was that High Def video looks better than Standard Def. Whichever actual media they used is irrelevant, as anyone who has used iMovie HD on the Apple Mac will tell you, it's perfectly easy to burn an HD movie to an ordinary DVD and still include chapters and stuff. The only way in which Sony might have fouled-up is that they were showcasing a Blu-ray compatible laptop and it apparently didn't have a Blu-ray disc in it. It doesn't really matter though, as the video shown will have been in the same format as it would have been on a Blu-ray disc (there's nothing magic about them), albeit somewhat shorter. And that's if this isn't just a rather simple prank by a journo who does seems to have an anti-Blu-ray agenda (if you read his more recent articles). And I'm not a Sony fanboy either: the fanboy argument is that Sony would have used a real "House of Flying Daggers" DVD, which is stupid, because this would be in standard definition, and therefore the image on both laptops would look the same. And you'd have to be extremely naïve not to realise that this happens all the time at technology demos. The reason is that they don't want anyone stealing their brand new tachnology. How many console display pods at E3 (and similar events) have been found to contain PC or Mac development machines behind their facades over the last 15 years? The point is that the laptop on the left will have been showing a far sharper picture than the one on the right.

DVD+R dics can be used on blue-ray drives! At expos, backups of demos are neccessary, Currently (and this will change by the end of the year) blue-ray disks are extremely rare as the production has as of yet hardley kicked off. DVD+Rs can be brought/borrowed from anywhere The demo was real, i.e. showed the difference between 480p and 1080p The hardware was real with the two lasers, one for BR and DVD The media wasn't real, big deal. That's why the machine isn't ready to hit retail yet, dumbass.

I think Sony is just like any other company trying to create innovations for changing industries. Maybe their marketing techniques needs work and if I was on the board I'd most definately fire the marketing director for making costly mistakes with the current styles of promoting up coming technology. But,at least they don't force you into a leash like Microsoft. And Sony is generally a good corporate citizen, Most folks who work for Sony are treated very well - .. unlike Samsung, Nokia and Hyundai - companies that through political pribes defecate on every humanity laws in existance just to satuate the market with cheap garbage.

SONY ROCKS!!!!

Sony or microsoft or nintendo or sega or ati or nvidia haven't they all let us down before? Ati recently with vaporware. Nvidia with hype about how impressive they're 7900 cards would be compared to Ati 1900's? Microsoft and hddvd drives for xbox 360? Sega saturn system? dream cast? need I go on? Listen people you can't count on companies descisions always making you happy they are going to let you down somtimes they always have always will. Wether or not Sony faked this is errelevant companies fake stuff all the time. Nintendo's showing of then called system project reality was nothing but a computer system. Maybe they did it because they didn't want real technology stolen. Maybe they did it because they didn't have the bugs worked out? Who know's who cares the truth is no company hasn't lied to us why be a fanboy for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft,AMD,Intel,ATI,Nvidia or any other just enjoey what you enjoy and leave it at that. The world we be a much more peacfull place if we could all just do that!

This is good, just perfect. incase you haven't noticed, the people who want it to be real give reasons for it to be real and the people who want it to be a face give reasons for it to be a fake. NOBODY, and i mean NOBODY has enough proof either way. It stands that the DVD-R is in the left laptop that we can clearly see a blue ray sticker on. however sony could be playing it from the harddrive to simulate BD because the whole point is just to show the differnce and not to prove taht it actually works. The laptop on the laft however does have a sticker on it in the same spot as the blue ray sticker on the right laptop, but this image is not clear enough to determine if it is the same sticker. If it is the same sticker both laptops could play blue ray, and that makes it possible they got the wrong laptop. The photos are quite real, but there is no way to tell that the video played is actually from the DVD shown in the photo. Finaly it comes down to the fact that there is no way we can know for sure what was going on. Most importantly though, we have to ask ourselves who cares. Knowing that sony just threw in a normal DVD with some high ress photo, or played it from the hard drive, or if this whole thing is a fake. Who cares? It makes some comedic evening reading as far as i'm concerned. In the end Sonly will put out BD and Toshiba will put out HD. People will pick on or the other based on prices, specs, and most importantly personal trust/distrust in either company. Oh yeah, and the last thing you have to realize. It isn't the companies taht put you down. It's all those little share holder meetings. It's the fact taht all thousands of people with the little bit of money to gain from one company or the other. That's what makes the decisions. Nothing to do with a "comany" but rather a corperation controlled by all the little people. In the end all the little people want is money which is of course what causes all chaos you see around you.

Testing troll button.

I call foul on this whole thing. It's the oldest and most despicable marketing trick in the book, which doesn't prove a damn thing. Maybe he works for the competition e.g. Microsoft. Or maybe just some crappy and troublesome writer trying to get a bit of notoriety by starting E3 controversy. - Pssst, your name has already been forgetten as per the many previous posts, time to move on buddy.

Schrödinger's 1935 paper regarding a hypothetical paradox involving a cat has perplexed and annoyed physics geeks for years. The basic idea; If the outcome of a circumstance is presently unknown and by observing the circumstance you will disrupt it, then it exists in all possible states simultaneously... Simple! thank you thinkgeek.com

I don't think i'v ever read this much stupidity in a room full of people trying to sway the point. 1. these photos are pretty convincing, and i find it pretty funny. 2. most demo's are faked or staged anyways. 3. the laptop is big because its a widescreen *re:fucking idiot above* 4. You would think that a reporter would be allowed to touch and witness firsthand what he is reporting. though he doesn't actually touch it in any of these photos. 5. piracy is illegal...and sony should go to jail for this and the rootkit scandel. 6. Are we to assume this is the entire movie on this disk or maybe half an hour of the most intense scene's? if this is the case, you can take a segment of blu-ray movie and fit it in its uncompressed format to a dvd. Its much like taking dvd, and putting it onto a cd. aka VCD's true you don't get the same quality if you use the whole movie, but if you use maybe 10-15 minutes of the movie from dvd, you can put it onto cd in dvd format so dvd players will play them with the same quality. i'v tested this myself, it works.

Hands up, who here honestly believes what they see at E3?

oO(raises his hand)Oo j/k