Several combo HD-DVD/Blu-ray players for $500 by end of 2007 (I totally disagree)

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Originally Posted by Blue

Will there be a need to release a universal player (I thought Toshiba was already making players for Universal)? Once Universal throws the towel in - which I suspect is getting closer by the day. There were no universal players for laser disc & DVD and there were a few 1000 LD titles. On the other hand if HD-DVD collapses, how much will the royalties cost for HD-DVD? not much.

At one time there was over 10,000 Laserdisc titles. Pioneer released a few combo Laserdisc and DVD players. I owned a Elite Pioneer model that played both Laserdiscs, DVD’s, and CD’s. Back in the year 1999 and 2000 there were nice players to own for someone who had a large Laserdisc collection. I still own Laserdiscs. I have sold most of my Laserdiscs and replaced them with DVD’s. Only kept the Laserdiscs that were not available on DVD or in the case there was a better version on Laserdisc (widescreen or DTS) compared to early full screen DVD’s.