http://en.akihabaranews.com/11812/legacy-unused/image/universal-hd-player-by-samsung?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=universal-hd-player-by-samsung Live from Japan ! Sat, 18 May 2013 22:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://en.akihabaranews.com/11812/legacy-unused/image/universal-hd-player-by-samsung#comment-33463 MrSatyre Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:25:47 +0000 http://akiba.dns.st/?p=11812#comment-33463 This is a disaster for the consumers, as it merely prolongs the format war. No dual-format machine ever ended a format war (just look at SACD and DVD-Audio; both those formats are dead). Now consumers will be even less sure of which format to support exclusively, thereby drawing out the apathy. Studios and retailers don’t want to to continue the cost of producing and stocking single titles in multiple formats. Don’t be surprised if Samsung yanks this model as they did back in ’06 when it was first announced. It simply doesn’t make financial sense in the long term.

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