News: Samsung Officially Announces Blu-ray/HD DVD Duo HD Player
Just on the heels of LG shipping it's Super Multi Blue Player, Samsung has announced The Duo HD Player, a dual format HD DVD and Blue-ray DVD Player.
"Consumers are hungry for more HD content but are currently confused about competing formats. Samsung's Duo HD player will allow consumers access to every HD movie title available regardless of the authoring format," says Dongsoo Jun, executive vice president, Digital AV Division, Samsung Electronics in a press release. Not only are consumers confused, they also didn't want to take part in another format war reminiscent of the Beta-VHS war. Sony lost that war but so far they're doing pretty well selling Blu-ray players although I think a lot of it's success has come with the PS3.
One area where the Samsung shines is that the BD-UP5000 will feature both BD-Java and HDi, the formats' interactive technologies. LG's Super Multi Blue Player does not support HD DVD's HDi software engine. There's also rumors that the Samsung will feature HDMI 1.3. No pricing details as of yet.
