Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail
Article by the Verge: It reports on technical difficulties encountered by movie theatre chain Alamo Drafthouse which prevented them from showing digital projections, due to software problems with Sony projectors.
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I still can't believe Sony is still in business. Who's dumb enough to keep buying stuff from a company that booby-trapped their own CDs?
If you read the article, they are no longer in the business of selling theatre projection equipment.
This was probably an expired certificate. Alamo Drafthouse, like many movie theatres, probably cuts costs by not having a projectionist and lets the projectors essentially run on auto pilot, and then faced the consequences when no one noticed that their certificates had expired.
Sorry to be unclear, I meant in general - so because they booby trapped their CDs, nobody should buy their anything, not just CDs and projectors.
Isnt Sony still the golden standard for tvs?
Not so much with OLED being a thing. They do make OLED TVs now, but they're just buying LG panels, so it comes down to is their image processing worth twice as much for the same screen.
Their industrial design is still top-tier throughout their portfolio though.
Yeah it's crazy to think that a company like Sony makes more than just music.
Also interesting that Sony makes more money selling insurance and banking in Japan than they do with their music globally.
They're pushing the boundaries on where to put malware!
Sorry but the booby-trapped their CDs? Could you explain further? I was not able to find out what you meant with a quick google search.
Back in the mid 00's their CDs had a rootkit on them that installed software to interfere with CD Copying apparently also some of them phoned home with your listening habits. Stuff was hard if not impossible to remove, used system resources, crashed computers and was a security hole, just plain shity
Thx a lot!
Holy shit thats dystopian shit.
IIRC, it became widely known that Sony was doing this after malware exploiting it became widespread enough to be noticed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Thx a lot!
Holy shit thats dystopian.
They are talking about the Sony BMG rootkit.
Those fat BETAMAX royalty checks?
Because it's the result of their disrespect for you, the customer.
CONSUME
I enjoy typing "COMSUME" at consumers.
You yell that at literally every person you meet, because that basically includes every single person? You yell it in the mirror?
Here you go, for what it's worth I've had tons of fun with competing products since then.
We don't need anything they sell; boycotting them for 20 years has cost me neither money nor time. Direct action > voting.
Theater business model as a service
Sony has the worst cybersecurity I've seen. Hackers are constantly running wild on them