LG to show dual HD DVD/Blu-ray player

LG Electronics will soon begin selling a high-definition video disc player compatible with both the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc standards, it said Thursday.

The player will be unveiled at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and go on sale in the US in early 2007, LG said. No further details were immediately available.

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I've heard they (not sure who they really is) are developing a disc that will play in either player, so it's not just a dual player, but a dual disc. I don't see how that's done, but I'm told it's happening.

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LG, a member of the, Blu-ray Disc Association, decided to create a dual-format player because the company recognized that the format war was creating customer confusion and creating the market for next-generation DVD players, according to H.G. Lee, LG president and chief technology officer. "Some time last year we recognized that the two formats are here to stay," Lee said, adding that LG sees "no unification [of the formats] anytime soon." According to Lee, the Super Multi Blue player, LG model BH100, supports all interactive capabilities of Blu-ray, but does not support all the interactive capabilities of HD DVD. Because LG has been a member of the Blu-Ray Disc Association, the company had developed the hardware to support the BD-Java capabilities of Blu-ray, he said, but did not have the technology available to support HD DVD's (iHD) interactive features. Instead, the company has created a simply navigation menu for HD DVD mode, Lee said.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

LG Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player is a dud!

If you thought LG’s new ‘Super Multi Blue’ combo next-gen disc player was the answer to format war, think again. This first generation unit is so expensive and crippled that you could buy a Blu-ray player and an HD DVD player and still have change. Hopeless!

Here is link: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8435/1103/1/0/

WARNING!!!: NO tiny urls here so you can see where you going.

Gizmodo Web Site Article: http://tinyurl.com/v82jo

Anyone who was planning on buying LG's hybrid high-def player may wanna sit down for this one. As we reported from CES, the BH100 fully supports Blu-ray discs, but since it lacks support for HD DVD's iHD, you can't an HD DVD's interactive menus, you can only see the movie straight through. So as a result, the DVD Forum might sue LG for falsely using the HD DVD logo and for falsely saying that their hybrid player plays HD DVDs when in fact it doesn't play them the way they were intended to be played.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net