http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/ Engadget HD Comments for Sony fakes Blu-ray playback [ Update] http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/May 16th 2006 5:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/The biggest benefits to Blu-Ray are technical, so even if the display quality of the content is not the same the use of other technology doesn't prove or support the product in question.
Anyone can make a DVD-R with High Def content that will play on a PC. Both of the new specifications also support Red-Laser extensions that allow creating DVD-9 with High Def content on them. That may have been what was on the disc, but the point is, this isn't evidence of the ability of the Blue-Laser technology.
Both of these technologies, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, are pushing more storage and new laser technologies as well as High Definition; if you're demonstrating that, then show me the new disc, I can see High Defintion on a DVD-R at home. ]]>May 16th 2006 6:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/May 16th 2006 6:58PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/May 16th 2006 7:52PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/May 16th 2006 9:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2939

There was a side by side demonstration on the AR150G Vaio laptops of House of Flying Daggers, clearly indicated by a placard. One was running a Blu-ray version, the other was a DVD sample.

quote:
"The premium model comes bundled with one of the first Blu-ray Disc (BD) movies, House of Flying Daggers, which Sony showed side-by-side tonight, along with the DVD version."
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Lame gearlog (Lance is a Wiitard) followup:
http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/17/11993.aspx

Sony PR man responds, confirms it was DVD/BD comparison:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185953&cid=15348016

NBR reviewer who was there, Malia.Zee, confirms there was a DVD/BD comparison there:
"The laptop on the right was playing a BD, the laptop on the left (the one pictured) was playing a DVD. I feel bad for Sony, since if it wasn't for me, this guy would never have taken the picture - and now it's been picked up by all sorts of sources."
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=54374

A retraction/apology is in order.]]>May 17th 2006 6:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-fakes-blu-ray-playback/May 23rd 2006 5:31PM