I agree with you JTK, this announcement from Samsung surely makes the high def arena about as clear as mud. Why Samsung? Why? When you now see Blu-ray taking a commanding lead in terms of disc sales and hardware sales do you make this announcement that causes further confusion. What we needed from Samsung was further solidarity to the BDA, and not crap about offering consumer choice, when in reality what they are offering the consumer is prolonged confusion. Don't get me wrong, I think choice is wonderful, but in terms of selling a product, often times, too much choice to the end consumer causes confusion...and this is what we have in this format war--Blu-ray, HD DVD, THD discs, Dual format players, etc.---and Samsung's announcement just further exasperates the problem.
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