Well, our readers tried to warn me and I started believing them towards the end, but not until today did I fully grasp the meaning of “coasters” when it comes to describing my HD-DVDs.
EngadgetHD passed on the bad news that Samsung is halting production on their new BD-UP5500 HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Combo drive player, and will completely abandon the current BD-UP5000 already in production.
This means that my hopes in waiting for a price drop on the combo players are being dashed before my very eyes.
I guess the only real glimmer left is that these BP-UP5000’s end up going for cheap just to get rid of inventory. I have no clue if that will even happen.
Either way…the idea of having one unit that plays my tiny accumulated HD-DVD library, plus all the Blu-Rays I want to purchase eventually is starting to look like a longshot.
So the boys here were right…the Cap’n, The Trousered Ape. I hate it when that happens.
Oh, thanks to EngadgetHD for the photo above, they always do great art.
On a few side notes, Best Buy is cutting their HD-DVDs by 30% (yipee) and Circuit City is apparently accepting recently purchased HD-DVD players back for store credit towards a Blu-Ray player.
That’s a nice deal by Circuit City, I’m now hoping Amazon jumps on board.
At least, you have a good upconvert player for your DVDs
I would expect that Toshiba could make those hybrid seeing they don’t pay for license. But you will still pay more than a Blu-Ray play if they do that.
Btw, I saw a LG(model 200) for $500 on the Canadian shopping channel last weekend.
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