In Samsung's booth at IFA Berlin you will among other things find the company's first Blu-ray Disc (BD) products which are scheduled to be released next year. The most advanced model will be the BD-HR1000 which is a BD recorder with a 400 GB HDD. The BD-HR1000 will support playback of CD, DVD, DivX and MP3 too and you will also be able to connect it to PC via Ethernet or WLAN.
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Samsung BD-HR1000 |
Besides the BD-HR1000, Samsung plans to release a BD recorder without a HDD as well as a BD player, the BD-P1000. The BD recorder with HDD will cost about $2000, the BD recorder without HDD about $1200-1300 and the BD player about $1000.
Although Samsung is one of the founding members of the BDA, it has also a optical storage joint venture with Toshiba, the main company behind the competing HD DVD format. As a result of this Samsung says it will develop combo models which support both formats. You can find more information at heise.de and golem.de (in German).
Source: heise.de
