Archive for December, 2006

PS3 vs Wii commercial

Sunday, December 31st, 2006


PS3: But if you’re just looking to have a good time good luck figuring out which buttons of mine to push … and by the way, my vibrating features have been disabled.

Wii: All you have to do is just touch me and you’ll have the time of your life.

PS3 backwards compatibility sucks

Sunday, December 31st, 2006


When played on the PS3, your PS1 and PS2 games will actually look DRAMATICALLY WORSE than on their original systems. Watch the video for a comparison.

The PS3 resizes the graphic output of PS1/PS2 games at a low resolution with no filtering, causing artifacts and amplifying jagged edges.

Bluray obselete before it even started?

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

…take a look at what Microsoft big boss Bill Gates had to say about HD-DVD in an interview with engadget.com:

  

Way of the dodo…

“In terms of movies, I often say that this is the last format battle there will ever be [hd-dvd and blu-ray], because everything is going to go online — you’re going to download it. In fact, one of my favorite features on Xbox Live is where you can go and get the HD demos of the games or get HD videos like the making of the Xbox, the making of Titanic, they’ve got this Mission Impossible 3 thing.”

The HD-DVD Drive Goes the Way of Sega’s 32X

Bluray not popular on blogs

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

“…26 percent of online posters express a general dislike for the format, citing Sony’s history of proprietary formats which fail to capture a marketplace (like BetaMax and MiniDisc, and, it’s looking like, Sony’s UMD movie discs). Many posters also felt Sony was an “arrogant” company.”

DigitalTrends on Cymfony market research

Sony LIBRIé Sucks

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

“In 2004, Sony launched an e-book reader in Japan that also failed to take off. Called the Librie, it won plaudits for design, but its high price and draconian antipiracy technology — users could only “rent” books from Sony for 60 days before the tomes deleted themselves — scared off consumers.”   - BusinessWeek

Really?  I’m shocked!  Sony created a decent product and then hamstrung it with unbelieveably shortsighted and stupid DRM?  That never happens!

Sony BMG Rootkit sucks

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

More Sony bucks available!  If your computer was infected by XCP you could be eligible for 7.50 Sony bucks!

Bad Sony!  Read the full story on the Wired listening post.

Sony PSP sucks

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Apparently there is no grassroots outpouring of love for Sony’s PSP.  People don’t like it and don’t make fan websites so Sony took matters into its own hands and went back to their old standby - fake-ass reviews, remember David Manning, well now we have a fake PSP fan site.

Read all about it at the Inquirer.

Here’s a parody of Sony’s appalling (and now defunct) fake fansite, www.alliwantforxmasisapsp.com:

TG Daily Top-10: Technology disappointments of 2006

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Sony was the number #1 technology disappointment of the year according to Tom’s Hardware Guide:

Sony had a real bad year, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the company appears in this ranking in one way or another. In fact, there was so much wrong with Sony products this year that we chose to list the company instead of a single product.

Sony tops the THG list for biggest disappointment of 2006


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