Thread: Finally, new Sony rumors
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Old 08-26-2010, 04:11 PM   #247
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Originally Posted by kikar View Post
Sorry I was getting my info from places like Gizmodo and this link.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08012/848675-96.stm

And from other forums I was apart of where people who pressed BDs for a living let it be known that Sony was footing the bill for an unspecified period of time for those studios to get their discs pressed. Toshiba ran scared and payed off Studios and that backfired.

All of this could have been viewed as one movie studio being nice and charitable to a competitor or a pay off. Either way this is a dead horse we are beating.
I enjoy my BD collection and sometimes my HDDVD collection but I have since moved onto Streaming.
Yeah, Sony stated they would initially subsidize BD replication at the start of the Format War in order to compete with HD-DVD until costs came down. Costs eventually came down.

What's important -- and what got me up in arms -- was hearsay being pawned off as fact. Even the Gizmodo and the link you provided above based much of their info on hearsay, rumors and other unknown quantities. Rumors are rumors. But when they are repeated often enough, they take on a "George Washington cutting down the cherry tree" type of traction. Even the above article says Warner went Blu-ray for a "reportedly" $500M. Reported by whom? And when? And did Warner's financial statements show this $500M anywhere? (AFAIK, no, it didn't! Because the "reportedly" payment didn't happen!) So this old article sits on the Internet looking legitimate, even though it completely lacks a citation, and cannot be construed as "fact" or "truth" in any way. Compare this to direct quotes provided by Forbes and Paramount's financials quoted by Variety.

I think this ties in, somewhat peripherally, with this thread. It has to do with truth and facts -- the reason I took up this tangent in the first place.

We are debating whether or not those photos of the PRS-605 and PRS-305 are real. We want the truth, because truth is important. We make decisions -- and judgements -- based on what we perceive as truth, and getting as close to the truth as possible is an imperative. If there is a PRS-605 coming out, I might delay my PRS-600 or Kindle purchase, for example. And if you read an article from a reputable source which including quotes from Sony saying "Yes a PRS-605 is coming, and those pictures are accurate," wouldn't you weigh that very differently than someone saying "these are reportedly real pictures"?

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