Thursday, January 04, 2007
LG's HD DVD and Blu-ray combo player
Think your combo disc is all that, Warner? Well, how about a combo HD player? Yup - it's true!
I WAS going to wait until this news was 100% official, but to be quite frank, if HighDefDigest (who recently linked here - yay!) are reporting it, and we're being told to expect more info at CES, then it's good enough for me.
Yep, the fine people over at Lucky Goldstar (LG) Electronics have grown some much needed cojones and have announced a player that can handle both HD DVD and Blu-ray disc. This news, ironically enough, comes on the same day as WB announce an HD DVD/Blu-ray combo FORMAT disc. (I wonder which layer will be accessed if such a disc is played in a combo player such as LG's - hopefully we'd be given the choice).
Great news, if you ask me. Although I'm a firm HD DVD supporter and have no regrets, picking up the one or two BD-exclusive titles that interest me will be a welcome feature.
Hopefully, other manufacturers will follow suit, and maybe, just maybe, dual-format players can become standard.
Source: High Def Digest
Posted at 11:52 PM
