Samsung Duo-player

[JTK]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

The press release is very interesting.
""We welcome Samsung's Duo HD player as another solution in the marketplace that will help reduce consumer confusion and buyer hesitancy towards HD media," said Ron Sanders, President of Warner Home Video. "This is an innovative product that can move us closer to mainstream consumer adoption of HD technologies.""

Totally out of touch with reality. Whoopie! We can all buy our combo THD discs to play on dual format players!

What's the @#$^ing point?

At over US$1000, only existing HD-DVD supporters who are not satisfied with the build of the Toshiba is going to buy these players. Forget average people getting these.

Absolutely. It's the exact same situation as the LG player.

I predict that Samsung won't sell much of these players because of the reason above. However, that means the BDA and the movie studios must work harder to end this war.


fuad

Quite right.

It's interesting that someone from Warner, the same studio that's riding the fence and prolonging the format war with THD combo discs, is putting over something like a combo player. Go figure.

But you're right: The BDA needs to really start showing and proving that they want to win this thing.

[The Big Blue]

But you're right: The BDA needs to really start showing and proving that they want to win this thing.

Agreed. The Blu-ray side needs to get their asses in gear and end this nonsense.

[marzetta7]

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.

[maximus2323]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

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.

I guess they want to be the first to offer a full flege player besides LG version that is not complient to the fulliest. So I guess they went for it.

[HDTV1080P]

When Samsung first released the BDP-1000 it damaged the Blu-Ray camp launch image since the firmware in the player had problems and the players received bad reviews. Now Samsung is damaging the Blu-ray camp again by going combo.

[HDTV1080P]

Samsung just killed its sales of the BDP-1200 for $799. Consumers will wait for this combo player that sales under $1,000.

[HDTV1080P]

I wish the CEO’s or some executive at Best Buy and Circuit City would just stop carrying HD-DVD software. Let the retail stores make the decision on which format it should win. If Best Buy and Circuit City stopped carrying HD-DVD product then long term they would increase overall sales since there would be just one HDTV format.

[BTBuck1]

I think now is the time that everyone needs to really pressure Universal for nuetrality in this format war. It's getting ridiculous. They are forcing Millions of consumers into spending thousands unneccessarily, they are causing CE mfr's to design/release unneccessary hardware, and well WB is just a bunch of dildo heads.

Anyone have a web adress we could flood Universal with for requesting Blu-ray?

We should start a thread where we contact Universal individually for blu-ray.

Where we contact samsung against HDDVD inclusion

and where we contact WB (not that they'll listen) against THD!

[coolmilo]

The only value I see with a combo player is those poor unfortunate souls who bought into HD DVD will have something to sort of protect their investment while moving to Blu-ray. It's sort of an exit plan for Toshiba and Microsoft to save face. However, if Blu-ray supporters buy this player so that they can watch Universal HD then the war will rage on for along time to come.

[WriteSimply]

I know people here are cranky today about this announcement. This is my attempt at making lemonade for a lemon day.

HD DVD supporters who want to get away from Toshiba now gets to do that AND secretly dabble into the world of BD!


fuad

[saljr]

My opinion anytime after October, If blu-ray sale continue by the end year we should know what format is going to win. Right Samsung won't have the player by X-Merry. So blu-ray still has advantage.