Samsung takes wraps off Blu-ray HD DVD player

[The News Bot]

Samsung officially unveiled its much-anticipated combi HD disc player at the IFA techfest in Berlin. The BD-UP5000 is fully compatible with both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, offering support for both of their rival interactive technologies, BD Java and HDi. It will sell for 600 pounds when it debuts in UK stores later this year.Also [...]
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[kourosh]

nice price

[Kendalbeefcake]

Ohh..I want one! Amazon are listing them for about £530 (with a 4-6 week delivery window!) and which is tantalisingly close to to the price of HD-XE1 which I was about to buy, can I wait that long???

[punkymunky]

You'd be better off buying an HD-DVD player at the end of the year for a hundred quid, then if you fancy it get a blu-ray player for about the same.

With Tescos selling DVD players for £9 and set top boxes for a tenner, £530 starts to sound ridiculous.

[Kendalbeefcake]

It's all about the spec, those £100 players are going to be nowhere near as powerful as the top end, have the backwards and forwards compatibily support all the audio formats via HDMI AND analouge, play both major HD formats in one..If I wanted a £9 DVD player I would buy one! One does have a to have the rest of the setup to justify it, and fortuntaly me I do!

[chrissyman]

Well i just think the software needs to be more affordable, £25 a disc is too steep, not that bothered about the hardware so much.

[Kendalbeefcake]

Originally Posted by chrissyman

Well i just think the software needs to be more affordable, £25 a disc is too steep, not that bothered about the hardware so much.

I agree on that one, I'm renting them from now from lovefilm as they have a good selection of both BD and HDDVD..

[kourosh]

Originally Posted by Kendalbeefcake

Ohh..I want one! Amazon are listing them for about £530 (with a 4-6 week delivery window!) and which is tantalisingly close to to the price of HD-XE1 which I was about to buy, can I wait that long???

at the end of the dayif you pay £9 for a dvd dont excpect to get much

[amd mad]

Originally Posted by kourosh

at the end of the dayif you pay £9 for a dvd dont excpect to get much

i bet that £9 player plays all known dvd discs my 5yr old sony wont play nowt exept genuine discs no copies allowed

[kourosh]

Originally Posted by amd mad

i bet that £9 player plays all known dvd discs my 5yr old sony wont play nowt exept genuine discs no copies allowed

well if your watching pirate films,you deserve to have a £9 dvd player

[WATTS]

hmm i think i will have 4 of these at that price, its a real bargain...

I have 4 TV's so if i wanted one of these players in each of the rooms like i have DVD players in there at the moment it will only cost me £2400.

Now that is what i call a bargain...

Thanks but no thanks, i will stick to my DVD/Sky HD and WMV HD!!

[Cool-hand]

Hi all

Is the dual sammy likely to have phono outputs for audio? And even worse is it likely to output dts-hd master via the phono's?

Ta

CH

[KjK]

Yep can't wait for the market to flood & these are £200 or less