Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Anyone Seen The Bouncy Ball Advert ?

[Jiminy]

I guess most would have seen the advert for the Sony Bravia TV screen (?) Made me smile, and the tune in the background is quite cool as well. Anyone seen the short about how they made it ... http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/index.html

The idea of being paid a fortune (too much some would say) to chuck 250,000 bouncy balls down the street in San Francisco and film it happening appealled to my sense of humour. And pretty good too if it isn't CGI.

Have a good (and safe) weekend one and all, and look out for bouncing balls.

Jiminy

[Gaz 748]

I bet sony are happy, everyone is talking about, even on virgin radio this morning.

[Gary T.]

Must admit I assumed it was computer generated graphics, as nearly everthing on TV is these days. Hats of to Sony for getting back to basics, but I pity the poor sods that had to collect the balls afterwards.

Thanks for posting the link.

[Edited on 19-11-2005 by Gary T.]

[ali]

Definitely isn't cg. I like the ad, but the team responsible seem an awful long way up their own rectums! Didn't stop me buying a 32" bravia though...

[ali]

Originally posted by Dseered
They need some good press after the stories about embedding stuff on your PC's !

Tis true, some of that DRM rootkit nonsense is nasty stuff. Pure poison for your pc.....

[ali]

If I understand it right, when you rip a new sony published CD (legally) it installs a nasty little programme that ensures you don't copy it more than three times. If you try to remove the nasty little bugger it does very nasty things to your Windows.

Even worse is that Sony have now realised they have a monster PR issue on their hands and, in an effort to backtrack, have released a de-installer for the nasty little program. Unfortunately it leaves your PC open to even nastier viruses. Fart-in-spacesuit levels of popularity.....

All of this only affects good honest citizens who actualy go out and buy CDs, not rouges that download everything for gratis. I bought a CD this week (first in about 3 years), it felt wierd and really sort of clumsy, low tech.

Cheers,

Ali