Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/09/07 09:09

M.I.5¾ wrote:
> "Alpha" <none@none.NET> wrote in message
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>>"Martin Heffels" <twentyfourthof@november.edu> wrote in message
>>news:nr6rp257ds2mtb6u27f5erv0hebom5dk8l@4ax.com...
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>>>There are no more worries. We can play 'm both with a single player from
>>>now on :-) LG will introduce a HD DVD and Blu-ray-combi-player at CES!
>>
>>This is not clear. In September, LG announced this, then immediately
>>retracted the announcement stating they had no design for a combi. Now
>>the same thing appears again.
>>
>>As one reviewer said: I will believe it when I see it.
>>
>>Even if it does come out, it may cost mega $$ since the laser and drive
>>mechanism are many times more technically difficult than a single drive.
>
> It was unveiled last week. They claim they will hit the market in Spring of
> this year. We will have to wait and see.

Still the first-draft, though:
Hopefully, by the time we can afford to put down cash for one in Fall,
they'll have announced some lower-cost second-generation model with more
native HD-DVD processing (instead of nominally converted Blu), and/or
another third-party company may have jumped on the bandwagon from scratch.

....And if so, *then* we will be able to tell Sony and Microsoft to kiss
our big fat white dual-format hinders. :)

Derek Janssen (nope, don't hike those pants down quite yet)
ejanss@comcast.net

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