: Samsung BD-P1000, the Blu-Ray player destined for the USA

Posted on Tue Mar 07, 09:22 by Matt -- HB Cali
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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:

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Posted on Wed Mar 08, 12:25 by Daimaou
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oh thanks, my mistake. And it makes sence, P for player, R for...

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Posted on Wed Mar 08, 12:44 by Matt -- HB Cali
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Now if I could only find a price and release date on the recorder!

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Posted on Wed Mar 08, 03:21 by Merc
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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.

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