Samsung to launch dual-standard DVD player
Just when you thought the war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD was about to heat up:
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. will bring out a DVD machine next year capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD if backers of the rival standards fail to agree on a unified format, a newspaper said.
Competition between the two camps has hampered the launch of the next generation of optical disks, which will have greater capacity and higher definition, as movie studios hesitate to commit to printing disks on either standard.
That war was over before it could even start. Damn you Samsung! We were all looking forward to wasting all our money on a soon-to-be obselete format.
Of course, it will still probably be cheaper to just hook up a Mac Mini to the TV and forget the whole standards war to begin with.
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