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Currently there is a battle for High Definition video supremacy. The incompatible HD-DVD and Blu-ray standards are duking it out to see who will become the successor to DVD video – in the early goings, it’s pretty close. The biggest obstacle is the fact that few people want to throw in with one side or the other when their equipment and movies may be obsoleted before too long. Until a victor is determined, for those early adopters the best choice would be a player that can handle both formats. Up until now there has been only one – LG Electronics released a dual-disc player a few months ago, but it cannot handle some of the HD-DVD special features.
So today, Samsung announced that they will be releasing a dual HD player of their own:
Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., a leader in consumer electronics and digital media technologies, and the first company to introduce a Blu-ray disc player will introduce a dual format High-Definition (HD) optical disc player in time for the holidays.
Samsung’s Duo HD player (BD-UP5000) will fully support both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats and their interactive technologies, HDi and BD-Java. With the Duo HD consumers can enjoy additional studio content such as trailers, director’s comments, more elaborate interactive menus and behind the scene footage. The new Duo HD joins Samsung’s next generation DVD line-up which includes Samsung’s second generation Blu-ray player available at retail this month. Together, these two models offer the consumer a strong line of High-Definition players to match Samsung’s award winning, and best selling, line of HDTVs.
It will probably be pretty expensive at first (the LG player lists for $1,000), but for those who want to hedge their bets, it’s not a bad deal.
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