Sony substitutes Verbatim DVD+R at Blu-ray celebration

Crazyimp used our news submit to tell us "Wow, just funny."  Apparently, PC
Magazine's Lance Ulanoff, attended a special Sony event and his inquisitive
reporter fingers disclosed a weird and funny moment. The story goes that
Sony celebrated a decade of VAIO innovation at a party in New York city.

The true star of the event was a bleeding
edge Blu-ray VAIO notebook PC (the AR) and a tiny "Micro PC," the VAIO UX.
The 17-inch laptop not only sports a Blu-ray player, the drive can even
burn Blu-ray discs'”a true first....or was it?

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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!


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This is rather embarrassing for Sony. But, what I would
like to know is how they got that movie on to a recordable disc? As we all know
it is against the law to rip movies that are encrypted!

Source: Gearlog

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