PS3 crashes into Bravia TV at 50 MPH for fun and profit (video)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 21st 2009 4:14AM
posted October 21st 2009 4:14AM
posted October 21st 2009 4:14AM
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That didn't look anywhere close to 50 MPH.
;)
yeah, your right, Australia must be on a different time zone or something
because their clocks were slower.......
/sarcasm (just in case)
it was in slow motion.
Yeah, I know it is, Brian. Hence, the ;) wink.
Your sense of humor must be in slow motion.
;) ... again.
what if you threw your PS3 50mph at your tv do you get a free Bravia????
I'm... pretty sure that's what the ad is claiming....
if not I'm sure you could sue sony. I mean, that's false advertising
I'm from Australia Melbourne, That don't look to be 50mph or 80km/h too! Blame the cameras made from Japan, capture fast motion too slowly!!
rgh, I hate it when engadget didn't include their source link: actually gizmag has the whole write-up about this dramatic crash-course video
and our detailed review.: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/sony-bravia-promotion-ps3-slim-crashes-to-bravia-tv-video/
I say way to go for that HDTV being whacked up
I don't think I will be doing this even though they are giving away PS3s with the TV
I don't think you have enough Bravia's to spare. They should have taken a lesson from Time Warp.
I must show this to my friend that despises Sony simply because they're the main reason Sega no longer makes consoles.
Sega is the only one responsible for their demise. And years later it keeps falling from stardom.
I personally blame their lack of marketing in America and not bringing over all the great games they hoarded in Japan.
But mostly I blame Shenmue.
SEGA, ARE YOU READING?! Bring out Shenmue 3 already!
I blame the Dreamcast. Seriously, that thing sucks, What were they thinking?
The dreamcast was an awsome bit of kit, it was not too far behind the ps2, infact I think it was the first console to render polygons they way we see now (no idea of the technical part) but the games where all "arcade" in type or conversion so it never really went super mainstream, I know loads of people who had one and hated it due to the fact the games where "rubbish" which was because alot of the western developed titles where, and the Japanease titles that came over here (however western in gameplay) didnt get the same press and people missed them, These friends who played my games loved it and quickly realised there was fun to be had, but for the console it was way too late. I think people who discovered it really loved it and others just saw it pass by without too much of a fuss which is the reason it failed I suppose.
The way they're rendered is called tiling. The polygons that are not seen are not rendered. It was an old PowerVR tech and the last bit of "gift" 3dfx gave it's customers before being industrial espionaged by NVIDIA. Anyway I think what killed the Dreamcast was a lack of copy protection. Most games fit on a regular CD-ROM and the console could play any "backups" without resorting to a mod chip or bootloader.
DC was my favorite console.
It died from lack of copy protection, less than stellar marketing post launch, no support from EA, and lack of DVD capability.
Wow lame, thats a perfectly good TV that I could be playing my Xbox 360 on right now.
well, at least it was a perfectly good tv. i think i died a little inside seeing that tv go out like that. i could have swapped them my older crappy tv...
How do you know it was perfectly good? It wasn't even on. For all you know it's a defective testing unit.
The XBOX would have fallen apart before the impact..
Amazing
At one moment there, I actually hoped that the tv would survive. I was expecting the ps3 to bounce off lol.
We're talking about Sony here. Do you really think they're capable of that?
I don't really get where the 50MPH comes from?? Are they trying to be sarcastic or something because that does not look like 50MPH, unless 50MPH was for some reason changed without me knowing it.
It's in slow motion.
No it's really moving that slowly. The PS3 just has an amazing ability to hang suspended in the air, and cause anything that touches it to explode.
I could've swear I saw some strings hanging from that PS3.
;)
I didn't know Mcdonalds employees were allowed to surf the web at work.
95/100 for good spelling and grammar. The minus 5 is for the double question mark.
miko: dude, you just aren't funny. stop it. really.
+1 @ J. baker
Don't be silly. McDonalds employees all know how hard to spit in order to land it in each and every Big Mac.
"McDonalds employees all know how hard to spit in order to land it in each and every Big Mac."
So Mariano Rivera had an open Big Mac at his feet?
I'm guessing Wii remotes feel pretty inadequate right now.
I don't know, I still laugh at Wii remote accidents... especially when it's live TV like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CkU2j8XXOw
@ Joe H
lol wow man I'm not gonna lie, I laughed at that too lol XD.
That guy was just an idiot thou, I mean he was standing like two feet away from the freaken tv with that stupid little racket attached to it, just what the hell did he expect to happen. Why don't people get that you don't need to do stupid over exaggerated movements to get the wiimote to work. This is the home shopping network were talking about here thou, so ehh what do you expect.
Haha brilliant - I can just hear the producer now
"Awww s@*t, cut to vt, CUT TO VT. Now you, the idiot with the Wiimote - stand in front of the TV so the idiots watching can't see the damage"
That woman wouldn't be laughing like that if it was **her** TV he'd just trashed. I'm sure she was just trying to cover for him, make light of it, but still.
My reaction wasn't laughter; it was "Holy s$#% what a waste of a good TV." Similar reaction to the Bravia/PS3 collision, I guess.
LOL that is epic
Spend $2,000 for a PS3 and get a nice LCD TV for free!
GEEZUS PEOPLE! It's in slow motion, I don't see how you couldn't see that.
Stop it with the "it's nowhere near 50mph"!
..one person didn't see that above your post. One. The other guy was obviously joking.
Is it sad that I confirmed the maths was correct at the start of the video?
Yes
@seriousam7, As an American i'd just like to say STFU you pedantic tool! Nobody cares...
@WmPenn - Yes, shallow AND pedantic....
Forget about it. Spelling phonetically just makes sense, IMO. I believe all words should (and will, eventually) be spelled that way. And we were talking about spelling, not Metric vs. English(which you also invented, btw) systems, or the proper way to write a date (I happen to agree that the Metric System is far superior to the English System and that is doesn't make sense to write the month before the day when writing a date).
Re: SeriousSam7
I Personally believe it makes sense to write the month before the day because that way you read it the same you would say it.
ie October 21 2009 is 10/21/09
I'd expect nothing less from a Real Genius, Mitch.
Now work on that laser!
Nah, my roommate will run this through MatLab as soon as he sees it