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Apple logo on Sony PS3 site a mystery
Joystiq, a sister blog, has been following an odd story about an Apple logo and a Sony PS3 site. As you can see from the image, an Apple logo *blips* at the beginning of a PS3 Flash promo movie at Sony's site (it has since been 'fixed', but Joystiq links to a copy of the original movie here). Their investigation has more or less resulted in dead ends; at first the logo was thought to be a watermark left by creating the movie in a trial version of Shake. As it turns out, trial versions of Shake don't allow saving to begin with.
The issue has turned into a bit of a mystery, as Apple (of course) hasn't made any sort of comment, and Sony apparently promised a statement but has yet to deliver.
In the meantime, we'll forgo speculation and leave the rumoring up to you readers.
[thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fra said 2:31PM on 7-10-2006
You can kinda see it, if you look at your LCD at the side.
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iwit said 2:34PM on 7-10-2006
No, this isn't a mystery at all. Sony just used a video with an apple logo in it for the smoke behind the PS3. They where to lazy to get rid of the apple logo, they did something wrong with the transparancy of the PS3 image. And boom. There was an apple logo in the flash animation.
here's the smoke video: http://dnpen.com/ps3.htm
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James said 2:35PM on 7-10-2006
This mystery was solved a few days ago. the designer was using an unregistered version of Shake and an apple logo flashes on projects created on an unregistered copy.
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Fred said 2:42PM on 7-10-2006
I read on another site that if you create contect using a trial version of Shake this is what you get. Seems plausible.
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Brian Whitney said 2:43PM on 7-10-2006
If you wanna see it first, er second hand, I made a video of it thats up on YouTube. You can find it right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OK41RXLclA
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ronnie said 2:46PM on 7-10-2006
They used a trial version of the $500 Shake software to make the graphic, thats why the logo appears.
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Felipe said 2:51PM on 7-10-2006
It's not that they were lazy, they were cheap... That happened because when you work with a trial version of shake or some other Apple software, the soft automatically places an apple watermark on the rendered video.
This is rather old news in engadget, and someone there found this out.
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Rodimus Prime said 3:00PM on 7-10-2006
Unfortunately this has already been discounted by engadget ...the original post also posted an update. Please see attached:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/07/apple-logo-appears-on-playstation-3-site/
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Derek said 3:00PM on 7-10-2006
To ronnie and Felipe:
Read the post, dumb ass. "As it turns out, trial versions of Shake don't allow saving to begin with." they used that video. What iwit said is what happened.
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Alex P said 3:00PM on 7-10-2006
did you guys even read it? The trial version of Shake doesn't let you save. Unless they used some other software to capture video playback that shake renders on the screen.
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Edicius said 3:14PM on 7-10-2006
Here is a decompiled video that shows what it is. They stole a piece of video from apple i guess.
http://www.johnbiank.com/apple_sony.swf
Here is the original version...it has been dugg
http://web.mac.com/mouseh/streamvideo14.swf
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Sean Finn said 4:14PM on 7-10-2006
How about this for rabid speculation: The OS for PS3 will be an OSX variant. Sony+Apple to compete with Microsoft. Oooh, yeah....
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Sam Katz said 4:33PM on 7-10-2006
Might it just be that the PS3 will use powerpc technology?
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Joo Carlos de Pinho said 5:09PM on 7-10-2006
"and Sony apparently promised a statement but has yet to deliver"
Sony has already debunked this rumor (and had done it BEFORE this TWAW post):
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=72148
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/717/717188p1.html
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Mark D. said 5:36PM on 7-10-2006
Okay, so suppose you can't save a video is the trial copy of Shake, but that doesn't eliminate a screen recording program from just copying it, or eliminate them downloading the example swf that's been links dozens of times on various blogs (it had to have existed before this.)
The real mistake here is that they could have loaded a small black circle over the logo easily before loading the video and on a layer above it, thus preventing this snafu. The designer may even have intended to do this, but forgot later on and not have noticed his/her mistake.
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Adrian vG said 7:32PM on 7-10-2006
So, where did Sony get this Apple video with smoke then? What is the black thing with a white Apple logo? A new iPod? :)
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Al Wilkes said 12:16AM on 7-11-2006
According to the engadget comments, it was from the placeholding Apple software box (like Final Cut, etc) that was black. Put black box in front of smoke, then paste PS on top. They just messed it up.
Again, I got that from the engadget post (read it last night - not yet today). Makes sense to me.
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mrtotes said 7:50AM on 7-11-2006
Sony Manager: Gez, what on earth were you doing posting a damn Apple logo on our site, don't you check your work?
Sony Web Master: Sir, sorry about not checking my work so throughly before posting it live. I'll make sure I go through a proper Quality Assurance process in future.
... btw hits on the PS3 site are up 150%...
Sony Manager: Really? {{{$$$}}}
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John said 11:48AM on 7-11-2006
Idiots! Look at comment #2. That is exactly what it is. There's no more discussion about trial-versions, etc. Case closed. They stole a video from Apple and in the first 2 frames they faded in the PS3 and the Apple logo was visible briefly. That's IT...forget about it.
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