Samsung Electronics, the first company to introduce a Blu-ray disc player has now planned to introduce a dual format High-Definition (HD) optical disc player in time for the upcoming holidays.

Samsung’s Duo HD player (BD-UP5000) will fully support both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats and their interactive technologies, HDi and BD-Java. With the Duo HD consumers can enjoy additional studio content such as trailers, director’s comments, more elaborate interactive menus and behind the scene footage. The new Duo HD joins Samsung’s next generation DVD line-up which includes Samsung’s second generation Blu-ray player available at retail this month.

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While the Blu-ray Disc format (BD) is supported by Sony, High Definition DVD (HD-DVD) is promoted by Toshiba. Both have their own merits and demerits but they are not inter-compatible. This has been causing a lot of confusion in the market as to which would be the more popular and accepted technology. This is where Samsung has come in with the Duo HD player which can offer the best of both worlds to the user. Though LG has already launched a Duo HD player (BH100), it doesn’t have full support for HD-DVD (including support for HDi) something which Samsung has promised to include in the BD-UP5000.

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“We welcome Samsung’s Duo HD player as another solution in the marketplace that will help reduce consumer confusion and buyer hesitancy towards HD media,” said Ron Sanders, President of Warner Home Video. “This is an innovative product that can move us closer to mainstream consumer adoption of HD technologies.”

Using the Duo HD player consumers can enjoy HD content regardless of the format. This is a big win for the consumer and seems to be a shot in the arm for Samsung to take full advantage of the HD market which is just beginning to takeoff.

Source: Samsung

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