Posted by Tarkus on 06/21/06 20:17

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/samsungs-hd-dvd-blu-ray-combo-player-just-in-case/

Samsung's HD DVD / Blu-Ray combo player, just in case

Posted Jun 21st 2006 9:54AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

First it was on, then off, and now wouldn't you know it, Samsung's
dual-format HD DVD/Blu-ray player might see the light of your home
theater after all. Too true, at least according to Digital World Tokyo
who caught up with Kim Du-Hyon, the assistant (to the assistant?) manager
in Samsung's home-platform product planning division, who said that Sammy
is already working on a dual-format, "universal" drive which could launch
by the end of the year if HD DVD is as successful as Blu-ray Disc. Hmm,
big-ass assumptions aside, it's not really a surprise to find a consumer
electronics powerhouse with R&D capital to burn hedging their next-gen,
optical disc format bets, especially since Samsung is already in bed with
Toshiba (the big mama of HD DVD) on a storage technology joint-venture.
And you know Samsung execs are just itchin' for another "world's first"
placard. Still, the timing of such a statement couldn't be worse with
Samsung's fledgling BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc player just days away from US
launch signaling the first shot across the bow of the already entrenched
HD DVD camp. Now someone please get Sim Hong Woo on the horn to teach
those Samsung execs middle-managers how to talk some smack and declare
war properly on the competition. Sheez.
--
"They put me on the "Waiting to Exhale" waiting list,
but told me not to hold my breath."

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