Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler More news from the HD/BR war

Charles, you asked and you shall receive, Amazon has a Buy one HD DVD get one free sale.

I'm rather curious why someone like Denon hasn't even announced that they're working on a truly universal player yet. This "war" is so easily solved with a machine that'll play both discs. I know LG has one, but it's $1500 and won't play cd's. So that's just idiocy.

I know I have read that some manufactureres are working on a universal player but are reluctant to sell them due to huge costs for the BR components and licensing to Sony. I seem to remember the BR players out there are actually sold at a loss right now.

Samsung has a dual format player for $799

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12110.cfm

Craig, more info and buzz about the Samsung BD-UP5000 dual format HD player due on shelves (depending on which rumor you believe) anywhere from this weekend to sometime in March.

CNET review of the Samsung BD-UP5000 (updated to reflect information from a Samsung representative that the BD-UP5000 will have onboard decoding for all high resolution audio formats, including DTS-HD Master Audio)

Hands-On Samsung's BD-UP5000 Hybrid HD DVD and Blu-ray player (Verdict: So Far, the Best)

BD-UP5000 Universal Player from Samsung [pre release]

The *Official* Samsung BD-UP5000 tracking thread

Samsung BD-UP5000 Blu-ray and HD DVD Player/Release date: 12/25/2007

whos not buying the bdup5000 cause it wont decode DTS-HD and multichannel trueHD

bd-up5000 audio question

Be careful if you are looking at Samsung. They’ve been pretty buggy.

Denon is coming out with a player, but I think it is a BR player and not combo.

I just picked up the Panasonic BD 30k. Nice little player. It does not, and will not have internal decoding though. It’s great for folks with HDMI 1.3 audio processors that will decode the HD bitstream formats, but not worth a darn for those who don’t.

I’d like to see Oppo come out with a universal player.

Hey, thanks for the heads-up!

Sweet! I just picked up two copies of Scooby-Doo. That way I'll have a back-up when the first wears out.


I plan on watching it that much.

You know what what be the best Christmas present for us? You actually having done that and taking pictures of your two copies.

Charles, I admit, I've reconsidered. . .







I'm getting four copies.