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On one table Sony execs proudly displayed two ARs playing early Blu-ray content: The House of Flying Daggers (below). 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 DV-R, complete with the Sharpie-written, House of Flying Daggers. Apparently even Sony can't get its hands on Blu-ray content!

Awesome!

lmfao, I've been saying it since last year...I'll be surprised if the PS3 even launches this year.

They actually used a Verbatim DVD+R....

I *DO* buy the argument that it probably wasn't a full movie, and that it probably WAS BluRay equivilant in resolution. Still, it's pretty hilarious that Sony was using another brand of media for the demo. But I can *ALSO* say that some other big names in the media industry have done the same thing! I know one of my friends who works for a fairly large and recognizable brand name purposely used a competeing brand of media at a fairly large internal conference, as part of a protest on the restrictions of getting media samples. It went over well with some, and less well with others

I don't buy the idea that they had put a non-compressed version of the Blu-ray movie onto a DVD+R. In order to pull it off, they would need to have a special firmware on the DVD player to read the uncompressed Blu-ray file information. I don't believe it. I think the DVD+R contains a compressed version of the DVD movie. They reduced the quality of the movie on the DVD+R in order to make the side-by-side laptop comparison with the Blu-ray disc very favorable.

Yeah, I don't think it was the entire movie. If it was HD quality video, there's no way they'd fit two hours of it onto a standard DVD. That is if they used MPEG-2, which I believe Sony was using for their initial titles.

It's not like most of the original footage for these movies was made in HD format anyways...

And as someone who works closely with various production companies shooting in Vancouver, I can honestly say that many movies STILL are not shot in HD formats.

So any HDDVD or BluRay movies will be "upconverted" at best...