April 16, 2007
Samsung has announced its Duo HD Player a machine that can play both HD and Blu-Ray HD DVDs. The BD-UP5000 joins the LG BH1100. No news on release date or pricing. Figure in the +$500-1000 range at first. There are millions of HD flat panels screaming for HD content (Sadly not in my living room 
) and no one is buying HD-DVD players because no one wants the 21st century version of betamax.
Well it looks like saner heads are starting to prevail in the format wars. Although if you really want to know which side will win, just see which format the porn industry adopts. Hopefully it'll become moot as dual format players and recorders hit the market.
So why has it taken so long to get dual format capable players, in one word lawyers. Big surprise
And its going to be a few years before HD-DVD writers come along. All I hope, is that when the drives come out, they have some way of writing in whatever passes for RAW mode in the HD & Blu ray worlds.
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I wonder if there ever was a box that played both VHS and Betamax tapes?
Personally, I'll get into the HD DVD discs when the players get down around the 100$ range. By then I won't have to worry about which format'll get accepted.
Until then, I'll just download the HD version of whatever via bittorrent and play it via my streaming media player...
Posted by: McGurk at April 19, 2007 02:55 PM (Ri74D)
Ironic. My GF (who hasn't posted on my blog yet; guess its true about no girls on the internets) just bought the Fifth Element a short while back. She popped it into the ol' DVD player, which promptly locked up. After taking the damn thing apart to get it out (no, the thing didn't have a paperclip hole), I popped it into my laptop. Same thing; it would start to spin up and stop. She did it with hers and the same thing happened again. I'm all like, "You got it at Target; just take it back and ask for a replacement. Where's the box?" I find the box and the damn thing was made of clear blue plastic--it was a blu ray disk. So watch out when you stick a blu ray in a regular DVD player....
NOW POST, DAMNIT!
Posted by: McGurk at April 25, 2007 11:36 AM (Ri74D)
Well, the Blu-Ray sales spank the HD-DVD sales currently. Not to mention that Disney, Paramount, Fox entertainment, Universal, among the other big movie gurus jumped on that train before it left the station.
HD-DVD had one supporter. One.
I know people say the PS3 is junk, but it's also a hella cheap Blu-ray player to help get those HD screenies running their preferred format. As for the porn thing and who they want to support?...That could be a little too much don't ya think?
I mean, who REALLY wants to watch graphic porn in super duper OMG WTF IS THAT High definition?
Posted by: NthPower at April 27, 2007 11:48 AM (fdeNn)
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