Sony faces difficulty in PS2 utility disc recall
Posted by @ 3:44 PM, EDT
A bit of an article from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Thursday morning edition:
Producing a device that can play back DVDs sold in foreign countries is forbidden under an international agreement among makers of DVD players and movie companies because many films are released at different times around the world.
Sony Computer Entertainment decided to recall the software for 1.25 million units to fix the problem. Since April 1, it has been replacing the software by mail. "In three days we sent out over 1,000 memory cards containing the replacement start-up software," a company official said.
But the recall effort has been hindered by the large volume of machines shipped and the fact that some users welcome the "defect." It will be impossible for Sony Computer Entertainment to recall all the software, according to some electronics industry observers.
some users welcome the "defect", only some?
I sure like my Region1 DVD-player...
| # 35 | |
| Name: Grandmaster B, E-mail: , Date: April 11, 2000 ip: 193.173.186.1 | |
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| Bjorn, that IP thing was just a joke to me, sorry. | |
| # 34 | |
| Name: Chaborf, E-mail: , Date: April 11, 2000 ip: 207.12.10.25 | |
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| Yea Bjorn. Hey I'm sorry man for my #12 comment. I did not realize that you were the site's administrator or whatever they call you. Doh! Hey thanks for the good work! | |
| # 33 | |
| Name: Bjorn, E-mail: , Date: April 10, 2000 ip: 194.47.16.181 | |
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| about the IP thing. The guy I warned have posted tons of comments in different names. Posting shit about me, the PS2, the people here, the site, posted 50 comments in a row, you name it. So after a few weeks of his shit I got pissed, gave him a warning. But he continued to post, so I mailed his admins about it. Then I posted what they told me here as a final warning to him. |
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| # 32 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 10, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.25 | |
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| Its going to be the best game ever made for the second time. I think vOice reckognition is a great thing to add on MGS2.Imagine if you could actually talk to Otacon or Naomi Or Campel or... than just use the codec to communicate using predefined conversations. |
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| # 31 | |
| Name: Phillip, E-mail: , Date: April 10, 2000 ip: 210.55.39.11 | |
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| Yes MGS2 will deffinately kick ass in that depertment. | |
| # 30 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 9, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.25 | |
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| Oh...and....ehm Philip graphically i ment not generally. | |
| # 29 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 9, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.25 | |
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| In games you can "live" and experience a world.Something that can not be achieved with books mags etc. But I understand what you are trying to say.the cut scenes were very long many times and even if you wanted to get into the action fast you had to watch the cut scenes otherwise you would miss the storyline.That was pretty annoying for many people. |
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| # 28 | |
| Name: Chaborf, E-mail: , Date: April 9, 2000 ip: 207.12.8.223 | |
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| Irvin, I understood all the messages. They're excellent points, I just don't believe that they belong in games. I play to get away, not to be preached to. Of course now I can skip the scenes, but the first time I wanted to understand what was going on and found myself getting bored and led astray every cut-scene. I appreciate what Hideo and his team tried to do....I just wish they'd put it on a seperate disc or something. You can read about Nuclear wars, spillage, powerful people, powerful corporations everywhere you turn nowadays, damn I'll pickup Newsweek. Do I play games for that? No. P.S.- Gladiator looks freakin amazing! Yea Russell Crowe!! |
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| # 27 | |
| Name: Phillip, E-mail: , Date: April 9, 2000 ip: 203.96.107.62 | |
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| Metel Gear and The Bouncer are two totaly different genras. How can you compare the two? | |
| # 26 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 8, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.13 | |
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| Chaborf MGS had many cut scenes showing the stupidness of politicians and it has an antiwar meaning.This could only be achieved with cut scenes trying to give us the antiwar meaning.If you get deep into the meaning of the game you will find many elements from the real life were the strong ones are trying to be the ony ones standing.Especially the scene were gray fox dies. "WE ARE NOT TOOLS OF THE GOVERMENT OR ANYONE ELSE" |
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| # 25 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 8, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.13 | |
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| YEAH BABY YEAH! | |
| # 24 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 8, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.13 | |
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| I ve read on the UK OFFICIAL PLAYSTATION MAGAZINE that there is a source/roumor saying MGS2 looks way better than Bouncer.CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? | |
| # 23 | |
| Name: Chaborf, E-mail: , Date: April 8, 2000 ip: 207.12.10.149 | |
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| No no, please NO LAURA CROFT! And to say that the new Metal Gear game will get "some" attention is a huge understatement. Just frikkin imagine what is possible with the power of PS2. The only thing I hope for out of this new MG is that it will not be so cinematic, also not so linear. MGS was great, however I got really tired of being preached to for 10 minutes about the dangers of Nuclear warfare and how the containment facilities are all leaking radioactive stuff all over the place. Does anyone agree with me? Still, can't wait. | |
| # 22 | |
| Name: Phillip, E-mail: , Date: April 8, 2000 ip: 203.96.111.196 | |
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| Just imagine what Lara Croft will look like on PS2! Apart from that, the games we are going to see over the next few years will make your jaws drop. Game's like Konami's sequal to Metal Gear Solid should get some attention. Absolutly! And some top PC conversions are on the cards as well. I mean, ask yourself, what could be more exciting? | |
| # 21 | |
| Name: Kituka, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 24.93.213.227 | |
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| Sorry guys. I guess it's because I've been watching Austin Powers too much. About E3: I CAN'T WAIT!!! It's here that Sony will debut games that really show some of the power of the PS2. Don't forget, developers have said the PS2 has "limitless" graphics, so don't be discouraged by some of the titles around today. In a year (heck, by the US launch- just look at Munch's Odyssee) phenomenal playing and looking games will be the norm!!! | |
| # 20 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.12 | |
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| WOW !NOW HOW IS BJORN GOING TO CONTROL THOSE COMMENTS WHEN THE OTHERS CAN FIND HIS IP TOO? | |
| # 19 | |
| Name: Grandmaster B, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 193.173.186.45 | |
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| Hey Bjorn, your IP is: 194.47.16.181. |
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| # 18 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.12 | |
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| I guess you are right. | |
| # 17 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.12 | |
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| I guess you are right. | |
| # 16 | |
| Name: Grandmaster B, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 193.173.186.31 | |
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| Just leave the crazy ones alone, they don't deserve our attention. | |
| # 15 | |
| Name: Irvin, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 194.154.128.29 | |
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| Kituka relax a bit.Whats wrong with you? | |
| # 14 | |
| Name: Kituka, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 24.93.213.227 | |
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| Player and Catbox, mmmmmuuuuaahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, mmmmmmuuuuaahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahaahah, mmmmmmmuuuuuuuuaaaahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahah!! | |
| # 13 | |
| Name: catbox, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 209.179.41.113 | |
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| I'm sure that all the bugs will be taken care of by the time the u.s. version is released, and that Sony will be a lot more careful with product testing. I myself am realy looking forward to buying and playing my PS2. By the way tell that ferry Kituka to shut his pie hole! | |
| # 12 | |
| Name: Chaborf, E-mail: , Date: April 7, 2000 ip: 207.12.8.169 | |
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| Bjorn, who really cares that you can get everyone's IP address? OOooooh, big deal. | |
| # 11 | |
| Name: player, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 208.10.190.10 | |
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| this sucks and so does the dork that put in that stupid muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa | |
| # 10 | |
| Name: Grandmaster B, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 193.173.186.27 | |
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| I think Sony just released the PSX2 to quickly. If they would've tested more with the machine they would definitley found out about this. |
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| # 9 | |
| Name: Bjorn, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 194.47.16.181 | |
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| steven: 129.116.226.162 Can you please stop with all your BSing posts here. If your only gonna post trash then don't post at all. I have been in contact with your admins at the University of Texas. They told me: ___________________________________________ That address belongs to one of our two our web caches. All of our outgoing web traffic goes through these caches. In order to trace back to the IP address which originated the request, we'll need some extra help from you. Our caches send a special HTTP header in each request called X-Forwarded-For. It gives the IP address of the host which originated the request. For example, if I were to access your web site from my workstation, your server would see xxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx Send all this information to rather than to me directly. ___________________________________________ So please stop posting all the crap here or I'll follow up on this and send the information to your admins. |
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| # 8 | |
| Name: Alexandros, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 212.67.134.41 | |
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| napzard, You only need to change the DVD disk not he PS2;) |
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| # 7 | |
| Name: Phillip, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 203.96.111.196 | |
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| I'm entitled to speek my word just like everybody els. | |
| # 6 | |
| Name: Steven, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 129.116.226.162 | |
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| who asked you phillip magnavox? | |
| # 5 | |
| Name: Phillip, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 203.96.107.20 | |
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| I'm sure the DVD problem will be sorted when the PAL version is released. | |
| # 4 | |
| Name: steven, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 129.116.226.162 | |
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| Kituka, don't laugh, your breath is lethal! | |
| # 3 | |
| Name: Kituka, E-mail: , Date: April 6, 2000 ip: 24.93.213.227 | |
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| muuuuuuahahahaahahahahaha, muuuuuuahahahahahahahahahahahah, muuuuuuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, muuuuuuahahahhahahahhahahahahahahaahahahah | |
| # 2 | |
| Name: steven, E-mail: , Date: April 5, 2000 ip: 129.116.226.162 | |
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| napzard, get your fat ass up, pick up that ps2, and send the son of a bitch back to where it came from! possession of a recalled defective, microchip-containing electronic device is a felony offense, by international law. | |
| # 1 | |
| Name: napzard, E-mail: , Date: April 5, 2000 ip: 209.245.70.47 | |
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| muahahah, like theyre getting mine back. I paid 699 and you think I'll send it back to japan so I wont be able to play US DVDs? muahahahah |
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