15 days ago
deusx : "Superbad" Move for Sony, Netflix, and Microsoft - "Just as Microsoft is rolling out open availability of Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) movie streaming through Xbox 360 consoles this morning, Sony is pulling out as one of the few major studios to back Netflix's digital push.Sony has played along, offer
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7 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Sony Bravia LCD TV Advert (Play Doh) & "The Making of" - A TV ad with stop-motion rabbits (which I hadn't seen until now) followed by a little making of doc. Amazing amounts of coordination to get it all done. (via Ted Mills)
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Signal vs. Noise on building less and underdoing to win in competitive markets - Not sure that I totally buy this, but certainly it's interesting that Nintendo didn't take the high expensive compete on raw power route to victory, but instead looked towards making profitable and innovate stuff...
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cameron : Audio nerds find a use for the Playstation 1 - Apparently it sounds amazing, but only if you warm it up for 3 days prior.
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25 month ago
deusx : A few things I hate—and one thing I love—about the Playstation 3. - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine - "For Sony, there's only one downside: Lair made me even more excited to get my hands on a Nintendo Wii."
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26 month ago
philgyford : BBC News | Technology | Sony admits to buying grey goods - This kind of thing makes me angry. Companies are dead set against regulation until they need it. "We'd like a free market please, but only when it suits us."
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Sony shuts down Lik-Sang - the most popular distributor of grey market and import gaming wares
deusx : Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits - This makes me sad: "Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony"
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26 month ago
Rod Begbie : MobileRead Networks - Links to fresh Sony Reader reviews - Reviews of Sony's e-ink ebook reader. Seem to universally say "It's kind of nice, but it needs a light and is too expensive." [via] #
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31 month ago
deusx : PlayStation 3 Not A Toy news from 1UP.com - ""If you consider the PlayStation 3 a toy, then yes, it is an expensive toy. However, it is more than a toy. It is a PlayStation 3. And it is the only PlayStation 3," he said. "I hope that those who understand this will gladly purchase it.""
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31 month ago
deusx : ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_230506_1 - "According to the metadata from the MP3s, at least one file comes from a Spanish website called GrupoeMusica, an illegal source of music files if I ever saw one."
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31 month ago
Andy Baio : History of Videogame Console Prices - absolute and adjusted for inflation; is it any surprise the Neo-Geo and 3DO flopped?
Nelson Minar : Console prices - Inflation adjusted, nice data view (via Waxy)
Rod Begbie : Curmudgeon Gamer: History of Console Prices - Absolute and relative pricing of consoles on their US launches. Interesting fact: Every Nintendo console (NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube) has launched at the $200 mark. Wonder what the Wii will cost... [via] #
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31 month ago
deusx : Life After the Video Game Crash - "But the gaming industry is still growing, dung-hoarding Turd Baron."
Rod Begbie : Life After the Video Game Crash - Fun rant predicting an impending crash. "We've now advanced from realistic 3D to slightly prettier 3D and... even slightlier prettier 3D with slightly better reflection effects and slightly better animated water ripples and - oh, look! This game has the [via] #
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33 month ago
deusx : Sony's Universal Media Disc facing last rites - Yahoo! News - "Disappointing sales have slowed the flow of movies on the proprietary Universal Media Disc to a mere trickle."
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34 month ago
deusx : Penny Arcade! - SOE DCMMORPG WTF - "After a crazy battle involving everyone from Wonder Woman to Krypto the super dog, you’ll end up in some filthy ally shooting rats with your heat vision."
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34 month ago
WillPate : EricRice.com :: Sony distribution vs. iTunes distribution - Selling back catalogue albums w/ no promotion. With Sony: 1000 albums a month. With iTunes: 10,000 tracks, make 70 cents a track
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35 month ago
deusx : Sony's Stringer kills (robot) dog | Reg Hardware - This seems stupid to me. I wonder just how much in free attention the Aibo bought Sony over the years?
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35 month ago
plasticbag : "Music giant Sony is launching a venture aimed at promoting talented gay and lesbian recording artists." - What a strange move. I suppose it makes some sense to have a team surrounding gay artists that can understand the issues that they might be confronted with, but at the same time it does smack a bit of ghettoisation. I'll be following this...
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35 month ago
WillPate : Boycott Digital Rights Management - Signed: "I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM)" DRM severely restricts our rights as users, creators, and members of the global community. We will not stand by and let fair use grow extinct as a cons
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37 month ago
deusx : Freedom to Tinker - Blog Archive - Hidden Feature in Sony DRM Uses Open Source Code to Add Apple DRM - "Sam Hocevar found conclusive evidence that part of XCP’s code was copied from a program called DRMS, which he co-authored with DVD Jon and released under the terms of the GPL open source license."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Cleaning Up Sony's Rootkit Mess - Sony's recall of affected CDs is a sensible start in undoing the harm and ill will XCP has caused. But for the recall to make a meaningful difference -- in actually helping ordinary users, not just in improving Sony's PR standing -- Sony needs to spread t
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37 month ago
jimray : I Heart Rootkit | The T-Shirt - Brilliant
plasticbag : Celebrate your love of Sony BMG with an 'I {heart} rootkit' t-shirt - Show your love for the arch super-villains today!
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Wired News explore the Sony malware installation and questions why anti-virus and security companies did so little about the whole thing... - I'm kind of stunned by the Sony move - installing software without the permission of your users, software that exposes their computers to viruses and worms. That's astonishing movie-villain behaviour, surely?!
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit - The story to pay attention to here is the collusion between big media companies who try to control what we do on our computers and computer-security companies who are supposed to be protecting us.
deusx : Wired News: Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit - "What happens when the creators of malware collude with the very companies we hire to protect us from that malware?"
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37 month ago
jimray : Wired News: Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit - Wired's online content has really suffered of late, but this is truly great analysis from one of the best in the industry
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