Do you go Blu-ray or HD DVD? Perhaps you just want to throw your arms up and take ‘em both? One option you’ll be able to do that with coming soon is the BD-UP5000 Duo HD Player from Samsung.
After showing up on the radar back in the spring, Samsung today revealed some of the specifics of its first dual-format HD optical disc player.
One of the trendy items is support for the formats’ interactivity technologies (HDi and BD-Java), which up the ante on the traditional type of extras that come with your standard DVDs these days. The HD DVD camp certainly touts its use of an Ethernet port for such goodies, and the Duo HD Player includes one.
Here are some other technical goodies:
The BD-UP5000 is due out in Q4 of this year with an MSRP of $1,049. Go to www.samsung.com for more.
It is hard enough to get both formats into one box. I would guess that the next version will be more “refined”. Besides, this is a preliminary set of specs. More details will become available as it gets ready to ship, so don’t knock them yet. At least they are going to go to market with a device that is a step above anything else out there.
I don’t like the idea that the features are not equatable between HD and BR. For example, no 24/60 for HD. Also, it’s not clear if the audio capabilities are equatable between HD and BR. We know that BR offers a better bit rate, will that cross over to HD? Appears these questions are not known until you buy the unit and find out. Which is an expensive proposition!
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“For example, no 24/60 for HD”
well considering hd-dvd hasnt given out its firmware upgrade yet to run 24fps output from the a20 and up, i dont see how this samsung could have supported it?
maybe once toshiba releases a firmware that will be all this player will need to playback 24fps.