Blu-ray and HD DVD hybrid players available in 2008?

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07 Nov 06 14:55 by geno888 in category Uncategorized To news archive

It seems that main problem is not technical but only political (i.e. patents, aka money).

Chipmakers such as Broadcom, NEC and STMicroelectronics are preparing components that will allow consumer electronics manufacturers to release players and PCs that will play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

And I totally agree with final comment: Customer dissatisfaction could be a stronger motive than politics.

The entire article can be found here.

Source: C|Net

 

7 Comments

ivid
Posts: 386
Posted on: 07 Nov 06 15:22
In the mean time, just waste your money on single format player. Come on, its only 1000 bucks, and it will make a great paper weight in 15 months or so. They look really nice ! Any suckers...I mean takers ? The industry badly needs your money! **** all the industry @holes responsible for this situation !!!
badasscat
Posts: 1
Posted on: 07 Nov 06 19:30
When the only difference is the actual disc,it does show you how stupid they are for not doing this NOW.....
JClarkKent2003
Posts: 65
Posted on: 07 Nov 06 21:50
is it just me, or since cdfreaks 2.0, has the news kinda started to SUCK pretty badly? geez, reading a few of these last news posts, they are really sad posts.
Bobverens
Posts: 241
Posted on: 08 Nov 06 06:52
I will bet the ranch (actually my condo, that some large global mfr. will announce a hybrid player at this year's CES show in the U.S. If I'm wrong, you can all gang up and toss me out :+
DukeNukem
Posts: 998
Posted on: 08 Nov 06 16:43
Bobverens - Don't worry if you're wrong. Soon there won't be anyone here to toss you out. This new site is lame. :r
greensabath
Posts: 47
Posted on: 08 Nov 06 23:39
Yea, I don't like the new design either, it looks to busy and confusing. I liked the old, how it had everything on the main page. Now, about the article, people, boycott this stuff to death....why buy crap that tells you want you can do with it....only buy if dvdjon can crack it...lol
heroineworshipper
Posts: 41
Posted on: 09 Nov 06 01:39
Two 4000 page specs implemented on the same box sounds like a technical roadblock, They're still killing themselves to get out Sony's firmware for Dec 4th. It would probably be impossible or uneconomical for them to merge the two platforms into the same code base. They would have to dual boot the player and that means Pioneer/Sony would be screwed. Pioneer/Sony went with the Sigma SoC. Toshiba/Samsung/Panasonic went with Broadcom. Dual booting the Pioneer/Sony product would require major porting of the HDDVD stack to Sigma. Dual booting any of the other product would be an orthogonal Broadcom port. Dual booting won't be very convenient for the user, but neither is any of this stuff when you consider how many standards the users have to keep on top of.

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