BenQ using 9/11 & WTC imagery to sell products

[aphex]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/benq...-wtc-and-9-11-imagery-to-sell-devices/

What do you think?

EDIT: Is that for real? The spelled 'believe' wrong, but it wouldnt be the first time i've seen a company from the far east have trouble spelling

 

[k1pp3r]

It looks to be real

Pretty sick if you ask me.

 

[Pepsi90919]

i'm digging the ipod ad right below it

 

[sygyzy]

Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

 

[PHiuR]

how do you tell that it's an image from WTC?

 

[aphex]

check out the 2nd link

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

The bottom of the building doesn't look like the WTC to me.

 

[natep]

it just looked like a destroyed building to me, not actually the WTC.

 

[oDii]

Originally posted by: k1pp3r
It looks to be real

Pretty sick if you ask me.

Good music on that site .

Pity about the model... is it a he or a she?

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: aphex
check out the 2nd link

its in chinese...? or some asian characters.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

The bottom of the building doesn't look like the WTC to me.

I had been there quite a few times, it is.

 

[aphex]

http://www.die-wolkenkratzer.de/pics/world-trade-center-06.jpg

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

The bottom of the building doesn't look like the WTC to me.

Look again champ

Pretty tasteless even for a Chinese company.

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[Slew Foot]

This is ourrrr cuntrrrryyyyyyyy........

 

[imported_KuJaX]

I would say most people won't catch that by flipping through.

 

[buck]

Wow, I wonder what they were thinking?

 

[Dacalo]

We should use images from Nationalists vs Communists or the Rape of Nanking to promote U.S. products!!! They will LOOVVEE it!

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: buck
Wow, I wonder what they were thinking?

Maybe they took a page out of the republican play book.

 

[BRObedoza]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
This is ourrrr cuntrrrryyyyyyyy........

lol

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: buck
Wow, I wonder what they were thinking?

Maybe they took a page out of the republican play book.

ZING!

That being said, I think I have a meeting with them in Vegas in January. I'll definitely ask them about this.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: dawks

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

The bottom of the building doesn't look like the WTC to me.

Look again champ

Pretty tasteless even for a Chinese company.

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I stand corrected. I've lived near NYC my whole life, but I only ever saw the WTC from a distance. I never noticed the bottom looked like that in pictures.

 

[sygyzy]

Originally posted by: dawks

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

The bottom of the building doesn't look like the WTC to me.

Look again champ

Pretty tasteless even for a Chinese company.

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Why don't you leave your racism at the door. It's tasteless for any company. I am surprised that BenQ would be this dumb because they are a pretty respected brand in the US.

 

[PHiuR]

it's not like they're using it in a negative way..."Music makes Hope".......hope for americans to not be so sensitive.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Are you guys positive that's an image from 9/11 because I am not sure. 9/11 is not the first time buildings have collapsed.

Definitely 9/11, not sure about Katrina though.

 

[oDii]

In my adventures to find out if it was a gal or a guy, I discovered this:

Picha

So not only are the Asians using 9/11 as advertising, they're getting hard just thinking about it.