Report: Samsung Cancels BDP-2400 Blu-ray Player, Delays BD-UP5000 Dual-Format Player

[Iron Man]

Why cancel the 2400??

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...at_Player/1020

[E-Dogg]

Originally Posted by Iron Man

Why cancel the 2400??

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...at_Player/1020

Personally I think it's because they are planning to release a player that that supports profile 2.0 like the recently announced Daewoo Blu-Ray player. For the prices they charge that is the least the can do.

[Amel]

Originally Posted by E-Dogg

Personally I think it's because they are planning to release a player that that supports profile 2.0 like the recently announced Daewoo Blu-Ray player. For the prices they charge that is the least the can do.

I think so too

will they be able to pull out something until the holiday season? unlikely

[Amel]

here is the wesley tech report

http://wesleytech.com/samsung-bdp-24...-canceled/380/

Samsung BDP-2400 Blu-ray player canceled (updated)


If you were looking forward to get the new Samsung BDP-2400, I have bad news for you; I just received word that Samsung has canceled all plans to release their upcoming high-end Blu-ray Disc player. All orders for the player have been canceled, and the model will not be brought to the market.

There is no word on why this decision was made. If I were to guess, I’d say they couldn’t meet the October 31 deadline for BD 1.0 spec. I hope this means they’re going to have a 1.1 spec player available soon.

Earlier this year, Samsung announced two BD players and a dual-format player. The BDP-2400 was the higher-end model featuring the Silicon Optix HQV Reon processor, and the BDP-1400 was the consumer-level product with nearly identical specs but without the HQV chipset.

Update: The Samsung BD-UP5000 has been moved back to December. The BD-UP5000 is a dual-format player and with this new release date means it is a minimum 1.1 spec, but it has all the required hardware to be a 2.0 spec. This may confirm my assumption that the BDP-2400 was canceled because they couldn’t meet the Oct. 31 deadline.

[owa]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...285#post249285

[quetzalcoatl]

I still consider this speculation until we see something from Samsung. It is hitting at other places as well but they all site the wesleytech. Which is a blog.