Published on March 7th,2006 at 8:28 AM
By daimaou
By daimaou
Samsung BD-P1000, the Blu-Ray player destined for the USA
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Samsung had already announced their BD-P1000, a home DVD and BD player, andnow they have released the infor that it will be available in the US mid-May. Good news, and it looks very good too, but releasing a player that supports ONLY BR might not be such a good idea.
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The picture and news release you referenced is about Samsung’s blu-ray player, which IS backwards compatible and does support regular DVD/CD playback.
Their blu-ray burner, BD-R1000 (which also supports regular DVD’s and CD’S), looks like this:
Their blu-ray burner, BD-R1000 (which also supports regular DVD’s and CD’S), looks like this:
oh thanks, my mistake. And it makes sence, P for player, R for…
Now if I could only find a price and release date on the recorder!
Do you remember the release of DVD rom burners? They were extremely buggy and had a ton of hardware related issues. Plus their cost were in the high hundreds at best. If history taught us a lesson its that new technology doesn’t mean best technology, we need to let it evolve a bit before we get our feet wet.