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Guest Lennyuk
Posted (edited)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/advent_vega-...commercial.html

Here are some points of note:

- Apps/games availiable - erm without a market this is extremely missleading?

- under the "office" tab - what the heck is that keyboard?

"Compatible to the latest 3D viewing technology, you can also play 3D games, with no glasses required!" - huh!???

on a positive note, nice to see it advertised now

Edit:

Others people have noticed in this thread

-34GB sd card support

Edited by Lennyuk
Guest warriorscot
Posted

The keyboard on the office tab is obviously just a cut and paste photoshop job not really a big deal to me.

The 3D thing sounds like they hired someone to do the advert that doesn't know the difference between a 3D game and 3D images.

Really it just seems like its not been error checked.

Posted
"Compatible to the latest 3D viewing technology, you can also play 3D games, with no glasses required!" - huh!???

Maybe that's why the viewing angles are so bad, coz you're 'sposed to be viewing it in 3D :huh:

Talking about viewing angles, the photo they got with it lying flat like that implies that the viewing angles are fine - in reality from that angle the screen would be a mess..

Guest zzleezz
Posted
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/advent_vega-...commercial.html

Here are some points of note:

- Apps/games availiable - erm without a market this is extremely missleading?

- under the "office" tab - what the heck is that keyboard?

"Compatible to the latest 3D viewing technology, you can also play 3D games, with no glasses required!" - huh!???

on a positive note, nice to see it advertised now

Good spot, really advent, thats shoddy at best. Put as much effort into the grammar check and getting the facts right as you did with the fancy graphics (sarcasm) and you might not be so misleading.

Maybe it is compatible with the latest 3D viewing tech! Maybe Advent are about to release an app that will allow holographic projection from the web cam!

Guest JonnyDixon
Posted

Dam thats a pretty big bad mistake to say it supports 3d with no glasses.

Posted
I want one of those 34Gb SDCards! :huh:

Frankly this is just embarassing advertising, misinformed at best, misinformation at worst....

Guest montage
Posted

Dsg really need to stop letting the work experience kid loose on their live site...

Guest wobblydoggy
Posted
Dsg really need to stop letting the work experience kid loose on their live site...

haha being a work experience kid last year, i truely hope it isn't one for he will feel their wrath. either way their marketing manager would certainly have had to check it prior to going live....?

Guest jamesie
Posted

Lol, I think the best feature is the"vivid 10.1" HD display" , a must when playing 3D games without glasses!

Guest wobblydoggy
Posted
Lol, I think the best feature is the"vivid 10.1" HD display" , a must when playing 3D games without glasses!

1080p 6.5 hours.... I can't get 6.5 seconds of 1080p without it juddering...?

Guest shadow wave
Posted

Looking forward to the update that turns our screens into 3D. Hopefully we can port some 3DS games. :huh:

Guest HunteronX
Posted (edited)
I want one of those 34Gb SDCards! :)

Both this and the lie about 3D games, are really quite terrible mistakes...

It seems like nobody checked the page at all. :huh:

Edited by HunteronX
Guest AndiTails
Posted

To be fair, it says play 3D games with no glasses required, well, I wear contact lenses, so don't need to wear my glasses, and if you have 20:20 vision, you wouldn't need to wear glasses too... maybe, it's just "in focus"? LOL!

What a terrible advert. Unresearched at best. The mention of the Market Place is the biggest faux pas..

But, let's remember, this is DSG, makers of the great Christmas Game "Toss Off an Elf" and other great classics... I don't think they really care!

Guest thedicemaster
Posted
1080p 6.5 hours.... I can't get 6.5 seconds of 1080p without it juddering...?

1080p doesn't mean just any 1080p HD video.

only a few formats with low framerates will run in 1080p, and you need to use a player that supports tegra2 hardware-acceleration(so, stock-based players only)

Posted

Looks like they are rushing as honeycomb tablets around the corner. I know, those tablets are much more expensive. I have reserved one and going to have a look at it, but am only going to buy one if I know that honeycomb can be ported on it for sure.

Not a big fan of DSG, period.

Guest Lennyuk
Posted
Looks like they are rushing as honeycomb tablets around the corner. I know, those tablets are much more expensive. I have reserved one and going to have a look at it, but am only going to buy one if I know that honeycomb can be ported on it for sure.

Not a big fan of DSG, period.

we will get a form of Honeycomb for sure, whether or not we see an official one is yet to be confirmed.

Posted

How about this:

"or up to 16 hours for audio playback only (LCD off). "

Didn't realise you could do this....

I thought everything, (including wifi), died when the screen wen't into sleep mode....?

Guest wobblydoggy
Posted
How about this:

"or up to 16 hours for audio playback only (LCD off). "

Didn't realise you could do this....

I thought everything, (including wifi), died when the screen wen't into sleep mode....?

The ad has been rectified now well player DSG.... the perfect crime

Guest Sir Gash
Posted
The ad has been rectified now well player DSG.... the perfect crime

So they have, but not the bit about using the mythical 34GB microSD cards :huh:

Posted

"The Vega is also great for gaming.You can download games from any of the thousands Android Apps available"

Updated and replaced with more mis-leading statements and bad grammer!

Posted

Get this guys. Reserved one at PC world for last night, just incase I could demo it and if I liked it i would have bought it. Not much staff there, went to the tablet counter, they had the various ones, samsung, amico, kindle, but no vega!!! Went to currys next door and asked the sales person if they had vegas in

sales man: yes we do

me: are they on display ?

salesman: no

me: when wil they be on display

salesman: ermmmm, in about a week.

what ? I dont understand this, why cant they just put one on display if they have them in stock. especially after that huge internat campaign they are doing at the moment. weirrrddd!!!

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