Samsung Duo-player

[Helicon]

I do not know if this is old news

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/P...413_0000338109

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/04/12...player-on-the/

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Helicon

I do not know if this is old news

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/P...413_0000338109

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/04/12...player-on-the/

April 2007 on both of those links. Nope, those are pretty darned new.

Wonderful.

[McBain]

Combo players are a bad idea in the big picture.

http://www.emedialive.com/Articles/R...rticleID=12581

[john_1958]

Originally Posted by McBain

Combo players are a bad idea in the big picture.

http://www.emedialive.com/Articles/R...rticleID=12581

I disagree i think dual formats are great

[marzetta7]

Originally Posted by john_1958

I disagree i think dual formats are great

Care to expound on such a statement?

[john_1958]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

Care to expound on such a statement?

When it comes to HD i don't want to worry which disc to use

the real format war is to get rid of 480i dvds in favor of 1080p and 480p

[JTK]

Originally Posted by john_1958

I disagree i think dual formats are great

Not surprising.

[Scorxpion]

LG was a looser player the moment they create a dual format

THD is a looser format and no one will buy it if deserves BD over HD-DVD,As a result will not a see a daylight.

Now Samsung with a dual format is going to be a loosing player too!!!

Why? dont ever think a combo player will play your both format 100% flawlessly without any fault tolerance So a single dedicated player is 100 percent and flawlessly than both.So i choose only BD player .

BD will win at the end because of its superior technology and nothing else.

I only agree with my beloved BLU-RAY friend who are posting great article from everypoint against HD-DVD

[dialog_gvf]

Remember, the CE and the studios want people to start buying into HD discs in a big way. If research shows the lack of universal support is stopping someone from buying a Samsung BD player, then Samsung may feel it necessary to offer the option.

It is still a BD player. And every BD player is a good thing. Realize that this announcement also steals thunder from Toshiba and cheap HD DVD-only players.

The HD DVD folk see this as maintaining their format, which is does. It offers them options. But, the option is a Blu-ray player.

Combo players will always be more expensive to make than single format players. So, a certain side that is price concious to obsessiveness will never buy them. So, how do they get the huge sales to have any affect on the outcome of the war?

Now the fun part: Samsung isn't through with announcements. They also have an inexpensive Blu-ray-only player (cheaper than the P1200) in the pipe-line.

Gary

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Now the fun part: Samsung isn't through with announcements. They also have an inexpensive Blu-ray-only player (cheaper than the P1200) in the pipe-line.

Gary

Care to expand Gary?

[Longshot]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Remember, the CE and the studios want people to start buying into HD discs in a big way. If research shows the lack of universal support is stopping someone from buying a Samsung BD player, then Samsung may feel it necessary to offer the option.

It is still a BD player. And every BD player is a good thing. Realize that this announcement also steals thunder from Toshiba and cheap HD DVD-only players.

The HD DVD folk see this as maintaining their format, which is does. It offers them options. But, the option is a Blu-ray player.

Combo players will always be more expensive to make than single format players. So, a certain side that is price concious to obsessiveness will never buy them. So, how do they get the huge sales to have any affect on the outcome of the war?

Now the fun part: Samsung isn't through with announcements. They also have an inexpensive Blu-ray-only player (cheaper than the P1200) in the pipe-line.

Gary

Interesting about the cheaper Sammy BD player. In time for xmas? This combo player is still 7-8 months out. That's a long time and much can happen between now and then.

Do you still think we'll see a Denon only BD player this year?

[JTK]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Remember, the CE and the studios want people to start buying into HD discs in a big way. If research shows the lack of universal support is stopping someone from buying a Samsung BD player, then Samsung may feel it necessary to offer the option.

It is still a BD player. And every BD player is a good thing. Realize that this announcement also steals thunder from Toshiba and cheap HD DVD-only players.

The HD DVD folk see this as maintaining their format, which is does. It offers them options. But, the option is a Blu-ray player.

Combo players will always be more expensive to make than single format players. So, a certain side that is price concious to obsessiveness will never buy them. So, how do they get the huge sales to have any affect on the outcome of the war?

Now the fun part: Samsung isn't through with announcements. They also have an inexpensive Blu-ray-only player (cheaper than the P1200) in the pipe-line.

Gary

You're one of several people that have confirmed this detail for here and in a few other spots, which is why this dual format player move puzzles me all the more.

Ok, they're going to release both a standalone BD player AND a dual format player?

*shrugs* Alllrighty then...

I agree with all of your points. Unless I've missed it, I don't think the LG dual player has been making big waves, has it?

And yes, it most certainly hurts Toshiba because I think most people out there would probably choose LG and certainly choose Samsung over Toshiba more often than not.

Originally Posted by Longshot

Interesting about the cheaper Sammy BD player. In time for xmas? This combo player is still 7-8 months out. That's a long time and much can happen between now and then.

Like it may never actually see the light of day.

Do you still think we'll see a Denon only BD player this year?

Good question...or the supposedly HD-DVD only Meridian and Onkyo players?

See a lot of this stuff is just talk right now. LOTS can happen in the next 6+ months from now.

[Eve6insideandout]

This only shows that this war is going to go on for a long time. Until the capacity of HD-DVD discs can't hold up and blu-ray just out powers them. It helps that Microsoft and their partners can't come to realize how much sales help when you put a HD player onto a gaming console.

[JTK]

The HD-DVD zealots proclaim their format as being the one to end and avoid any and all customer confusion, among many other lies.

I'm going to describe a scenario that's fairly probable at the rate this is going, and you all tell me how confusing this is or not to the average guy on the streets:

You walk into your favorite movie/electronics store one day and you look around. You see DVD in one area and that's fine. You know what that is and there's no guessing there. You look in the other direction in the high def areas. You take a walk in there and you see Blu-Ray...you kind of know what that is...you then see HD-DVD and you can easily intuit off of DVD what that is...and then you look again and you start seeing things like THD combo discs and then you start seeing dual format players.

How stupid is this? Do you buy your THD combo discs to play on your dual format hardware? Do I flip a coin to decide whether I'm in the mood to play the HD-DVD version or BD version of said title that day?

^^ All this is supposed to be to give the consumer "more choice" and "less confusion"?!?!

Rubbish.