Samsung confirms combi Blu-ray HD DVD player

[The News Bot]

In a move that would have surprised few, Samsung today confirmed that it will be introducing a combination Blu-ray HD DVD player. Unlike LG’s groundbreaking Super Multi Blue model, the Samsung BD-UP5000 is fully compatible with HD DVD discs, thanks to its support of BD Java and HDi. Said Dongsoo Jun, Executive Vice President of [...]
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[Mark_a]

Hopefully that will spur all the others to launch dual machines, thus putting an end to this phoney war.

Regards

Mark

[brownieeyes]

strange that, early reports always suggested that a dual machine would never happen!!!! talk about consumer mis-information.

[Worm]

But how would it deal with the region coding on blu ray discs and region free HD DVD ones.