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dcharlie

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sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« on: October 29, 2007, 11:54:27 AM »
What ?! You bought a Full HD tv ??!

you should have bought a FULLER HD Tv like Bravia X series! what were you thinking?

As if the "Fuller HD" moniker wasn`t fannybattertastic enough, they have a chart up showing you how much better the new TV is than the one people bought as "the new shit" mere months ago... which itself was a very quick iteration of the previous line...
with circles showing "adequate" but FUCKING GLITTERING GOLD CROWNS showing that the new TV is the REAL hot shit. This time... we mean it... this one is HDMI 1.3 and has super colour boosting something or other.  but anyways....

And just as i started removing the stench of sonys ass out of my mouth, i saunter over to the DVD section of Yodobashi. Spiderman 3 - on it`s own - on bluray? Bwaahhahahaa why that would make too much sense! You can either buy the stupidly priced DVD that clocks in at Bluray price OR you can buy Spiderman 1 , 2 and 3 in a bundle for $140 or something ASS BACKWARDS like that....

or i guess you could buy the PS3 "desperation bundle" and get Spiderman 3 on it's own then.

Who the frig is running Sony these days? My pubes could run a company better than this.

Rman

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2007, 12:04:04 PM »
FWIW, they are making plenty of money on their Bravia line. 

Smooth Groove

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2007, 12:08:40 PM »
Dcharlie, did you mean that if the Spiderman Blu-rays are just sold together as a bundle? 

Fuller HD sounds really distinguished mentally-challenged.  I'll just keep waiting until they offer me Fullest HD.

MCD

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2007, 12:14:11 PM »
Sony sux.

GO GO GO SAMMY!

and Epson, i love Epson.


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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2007, 12:25:32 PM »
I met the CEO of Epson US last weekend.
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MCD

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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2007, 12:29:13 PM »
I met the CEO of Epson US last weekend.

If you meet him again, tell him thanks for making kickass scanners (amazing software).


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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2007, 12:48:47 PM »
I'm sure he coded it himself, I'll pass the message along.
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TVC15

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2007, 01:01:06 PM »
I like making fun of Sony as much as the next guy, but you can't accurately pretend that they are the only company out there that are total assclowns when it comes to releasing new TVs every other months.  Yeah, the naming scheme is especially distinguished mentally-challenged, but it's not like any more proof was needed on how distinguished mentally-challenged Sony's PR people have been the past couple of years.
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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2007, 01:07:43 PM »
Sony is the Barney Fife of electronics

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MCD

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« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2007, 01:09:41 PM »
I'm sure he coded it himself, I'll pass the message along.

 :bow :bow :bow

DJ_Tet

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2007, 01:13:35 PM »
I wouldn't fault them for releasing new tvs, but if they aren't releasing Spiderman 3 seperately on Blu Ray that sounds like a horrible idea to me.  They are on the verge of losing their lead in the format war and they are bundling their exclusive 'big gun' in with a box set and PS3?  And then price gouging on the dvds?

Makes me really happy I jumped on that Best Buy HD DVD deal  :D

Transformers looks amazing  :-*
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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2007, 01:35:47 AM »
I wouldn't fault them for releasing new tvs, but if they aren't releasing Spiderman 3 seperately on Blu Ray that sounds like a horrible idea to me.  They are on the verge of losing their lead in the format war and they are bundling their exclusive 'big gun' in with a box set and PS3?  And then price gouging on the dvds?

Makes me really happy I jumped on that Best Buy HD DVD deal  :D

Transformers looks amazing  :-*

There's a crucial factor that you missed here: DCharlie is in Japan, where all the companies do fucked up shit like this and media pricing is way out of fucking control.  I saw the Spider-Man Blu-Ray bundle ad last week and laughed.  It's a good thing Japan is the same region as the U.S. with these movies!
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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2007, 01:36:57 AM »
UMD worked out great
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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2007, 01:41:59 AM »
I'm just waiting.  If I didn't have a PS3, I wouldn't bother getting a Blu-Ray player either.  I doubt HD-DVD is going to end up winning the format wars; I'm just waiting for the inevitable Blu-Ray victory and then all the real "special editions" of all the movies that were gimped previously or on HD-DVD.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2007, 01:42:36 AM »
I dont think there is a war to win here, im waiting for whats next :)
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« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2007, 01:57:24 AM »
I dont think there is a war to win here, im waiting for whats next :)

Oh, but there is a war-- it's just not between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.  It's between both of those formats and DVD.   :) 
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Ichirou

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2007, 02:05:55 AM »
This whole HD thing is so fucked up.  I really wish they had gone with a single format. :(
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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2007, 02:07:43 AM »
This whole HD thing is so fucked up.  I really wish they had gone with a single format. :(

Do they ever?  DVD had some of the same shit (well, the players at least) in the beginning, and there was Beta Max and VHS before that.

My dad was pro-Beta Max back then, even after VHS had clearly kicked the shit out of it, so for a couple of years, we didn't have shit to watch on tape. 
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Smooth Groove

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2007, 02:11:14 AM »
In some ways, having two competitors have been good for the HD war.  If not for Hd-dvd, Blu-ray would probably still be using the far inferior Mpeg-2 codecs inseated of VC1.  Also, there have been ridiculous deals from both sides to bring in new customers. 

recursivelyenumerable

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« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2007, 02:57:06 AM »
dcharlie and Sony need to make passionate love already and get it over with.  the pheromone smell is a bit overbearing for the rest of us.
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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2007, 03:11:52 AM »
dcharlie and Sony need to make passionate love already and get it over with.  the pheromone smell is a bit overbearing for the rest of us.

Listen, he bought a PSX and got fucked over by Sony.  He is therefore allowed to trashtalk them all he wants to.
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aoi tsuki

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #21 on: October 30, 2007, 06:07:38 AM »
Minidisc worked out great
Fixed.

i'm still mildly bitter.

Eel O'Brian

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« Reply #22 on: October 30, 2007, 09:29:51 AM »
Also, there have been ridiculous deals from both sides to bring in new customers. 

I know, and that's why I hope this "war" drags on as long as possible.  I own both formats now, and I am really digging all these cheap/free movie deals.
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DJ_Tet

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #23 on: October 30, 2007, 09:47:49 AM »


There's a crucial factor that you missed here: DCharlie is in Japan, where all the companies do fucked up shit like this and media pricing is way out of fucking control.  I saw the Spider-Man Blu-Ray bundle ad last week and laughed.  It's a good thing Japan is the same region as the U.S. with these movies!


Cool, thanks for clearing that up.  That makes sense, I couldn't imagine Sony would be stupid enough to pull something like that in the US.  I guess Japan really is a world away...
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brawndolicious

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #24 on: October 30, 2007, 02:55:31 PM »
what resolution is fuller HD?  what content is there for it?

Rman

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #25 on: October 30, 2007, 03:01:59 PM »
Fuller HD is just a marketing term Sony's PR department probably came up with.  It just means full 1080p instead of 720p/1080i.

brawndolicious

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Re: sony are so awesome, they have the best ideas
« Reply #26 on: October 30, 2007, 08:16:26 PM »
I thought Full HD was 1080P?

drohne

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« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2007, 05:23:49 AM »
bandai's doing that same thing with anime bds in the us, unbelievably. i'd like to see wings of honneamise in hd, but shit is like $70 in some weird dvd bundle, and netflix doesn't carry it