Posted by Rich on 06/22/06 01:39

Tarkus wrote:
> 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."
>
> Now playing: "Pat Travers - Green Eyed Lady"

Don't tell me; It's $1500. $1000 for the blu-ray part, and $500 for
the HD-DVD part? :)
Doer of all things, likely a master of none.

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