“So if you hadn’t already heard, when you hit the Sony PlayStation 3 home page you’re greeted with the usual requisite promo animation… and a momentary flash of the Apple logo,” Ryan Block reports for Engadget.
“Seriously. Go check it out if you don’t believe us,” Block writes. “So, what’s the deal? Well, our first inclination would be that it’s either a mistake, some misplaced watermark, or the designer who put this thing up was probably about to get fired so s/he decided to have a little fun. Trust us though, we definitely would put it past Sony to be all sly and leave us some clue about a possible Apple video game partnership — that just ain’t happening at this point.”
Full article with screenshot of Apple logo flash frame and links here.
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Most of the biggies are looking to make sure they get a little of the Apple kudos. Sony have closer lonks than many might imagine !!
Gone. Couldn’t see it.
It’s gone.
$5 says either Sony or their ad agency is using a trial version of Shake and the Apple logo appears periodically because it’s in demo mode.
Any takers?
Really late news guys, seriously poor show!!
This was on engadget yesterday and by the time i read it on that it had already been changed!!
How are MDN readers supposed to get a look at something that was removed more than 24 hours ago, when it is reported as new news??
Channel Z,
Not having a go at you at all but thats exactly what engadget concluded in an update to their coverage of the story!!
YESTERDAY!!
Yeah- it’s gone now. There was a discussion about this on Digg yesterday though, and when someone decompiled the original .swf file they found it contained a watermarked “billowing smoke” rendering from Shake – the demo version.
It appeared because they were using a trial version of Shake which watermarks it. Looks like they finally springed for the full version.
Remember a keynote or two ago when SJ introduced the head of Sony, bringing him on to the stage from the wings?
It was a very gracious gesture, but seemed to be a non sequitur… No mention of any products/alliances, of course…
Steve understands international business etiquette. Let’s pay close attention
If you play it backwards, it says Paul is dead.
Hehehehe
Channel Z – All Static, All Day, FOREVER!!!
Samsung in compeitition with Apple?
http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-6091973.html?part=rss&tag=6091973&subj=news
Hmmm, Samsung wins bid for iPod something or another, spills the beans about it.
Apple is pissed and realizes Samsung is another Creative in the making, ditches Samsung and goes with someone else.
New iPod is delayed. Makes sense.
Update: So from the sound of it Occam’s razor strikes again. Looks like that logo flashes when you author using a trial version of Apple’s Shake. So basically from what we can ascertain, Sony (or its ad agency) is too cheap to buy their people the full version of Shake, which goes for $500 list on Apple’s site. Tisk, tisk!
Yes Mike I remember when SJ brought the head of Sony on stage and to this day it makes me smile for what could’ve been.
Since then Sony has a new head, some British guy who claims the only media players out there are ones made by Sony.
*sighs*
MW ‘happened’ Yep Sony a Japanese company that actually dosn’t have a Japanese person at its head, British citizens can be extradited to the USA on any charge a lawyer sees fit to place and ‘happened’ in what’s happening to the world for things like this to happen!
Don’t forget it was a British company who developed the Sony rootkit.
The Brits are tapping the Thames for drinking water again.
There maybe something in the water that makes the British so good at designing these beautiful Apple products you lot are buying in droves. If it was down to Americans, the iPod would use 4 gallons of gas to run for 20 minutes and maybe some illustrative fire stickers along the sides. Fo sho ma shizzle and what have you….. Dawg?
the site has been updated. the original page can be found here: http://www.sonofgamenight.com/media/sonyps3.htm
The same logo that can appear on iDVD, iMovie, etc.
Looks like a Shake logo…LMAO!
You wankers.
MacBookCrack:
Fo sho ma shizzle…
That’s ‘fo shizzle m’nizzle.’
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Do you guys even know what “fo’ shizzle ma nizzle” means? If you did, you probably wouldn’t say it, especially the white people here…
“fo shizzle ma nizzle” is a bastardization of “fo’ sheezy mah neezy” which is a bastardization of “for sure mah nigga” which is a bastdardization of “I concur with you whole heartedly my African american brother”
peace in the house
it’s still there, it fades in and out, hit referesh and look at the center of the PS3
It’s not the watermark from the shake demo.
And why would they even use Shake in the first place? There is no serious compositing in there that wouldn’t have been done in AE or Motion. Hell, even the quick and dirty compositing in FCP or QT pro could have assembled that.
The logo is on a box that the smoke is flowing over. It’s simply being recycled, and they didn’t mask it out well enough.
http://pspold.qj.net/2006/Video/apple_sony.swf
Channel Z, I’ll gladly take you on. =)