There have been rumors for a while, but now its official. Samsung is going format neutral. They already started putting HD DVD drives in some of their computers, but now they announced that they will be selling a player that plays both Blu-Ray and HD DVD this year. There's no oficial word on price yet, but there are whispers that it will be about 10% more than their BD player. If the price is reasonable, this is sigmificant.
Jack
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Topic - Samsung to make dual player - Jack G 05:04:20 04/13/07 (20)
- Universal is the only major studio not releasing blu-ray at the moment - Jazz Inmate 10:36:55 04/13/07 (18)
- Not likely any time soon, if ever. - Jack G 11:32:43 04/13/07 (17)
- Blu-Ray needs to win this fight. - oscar 06:29:58 04/14/07 (16)
- Nonsense - Jack G 06:56:59 04/14/07 (15)
- no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Joe Murphy Jr 13:04:50 04/14/07 (4)
- I'd want the HD video with uncompressed 24/192 or SACD 5.1 audio tracks. - oscar 09:07:26 04/16/07 (0)
- Re: no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Jack G 17:00:42 04/14/07 (2)
- audio quality - Joe Murphy Jr 18:06:09 04/14/07 (1)
- We are basically in agreement. - Jack G 08:46:02 04/15/07 (0)
- So you don't think the extra storage space is needed ? - oscar 07:20:33 04/14/07 (9)
- No - Jack G 11:15:45 04/14/07 (4)
- I don't expect "new" BD movies to NOT work on "old" BD players. - oscar 11:23:27 04/14/07 (3)
- Unknown - Jack G 11:47:19 04/14/07 (2)
- Re: Unknown - oscar 19:10:25 04/14/07 (1)
- Re: Unknown - Jack G 08:11:02 04/15/07 (0)
- BR MAY be theoretically superior, but I consider Sony the Microsoft of consumer electronics--a monopolistic bully... - jeffreybehr 10:42:30 04/14/07 (3)
- Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - oscar 11:16:18 04/14/07 (2)
- Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - dbphd 11:34:22 04/15/07 (1)
- Since you brought it up, I've been blessed with having to work in a Unix environment. - oscar 16:37:39 04/15/07 (0)
- Better link - Jack G 05:15:53 04/13/07 (0)