Samsung has no plans to support HD-DVD

[Leedogg]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/...7390411880.htm

Samsung Electronics is going to give its full support to Sony's Blu-ray drive in the competition with Toshiba's HD-DVD platform to help it become the next-generation standard.

Samsung is going all-out for Blu-ray. We were the first one to market the Blu-ray player, David Steel, vice president of Samsung Electronics, told The Korea Times in fluent Korean on Friday. Steel is the global marketing executive for digital appliances.

Steel also said that Samsung has no plan to develop HD-DVD players or combo devices, which support both the Blu-ray and HD-DVD platforms. A public relations official of Samsung confirmed it on Monday.

Blu-ray and HD-DVD are high-density optical disc formats. They are competing to become the industrial standard expected to replace the DVD platform as early as next year.

It is the first time Samsung has admitted that it has completely shifted to the side of Blu-ray. Though it has been a main member of the Blu-ray team composed of global companies such as Sony, Apple, Hitachi, Sharp and Philips, the Korean company had said that it could sell HD-DVD devices as well in the future.

This is bad news for HD-DVD. (:

credit: goes to 8_bit from the psinext forums for the link

[JU1CYFRU1T]

That's funny. It looks like Samsung has taken up doulbe-dutch as a hobby. In September they anounced a HD-DVD drive that would ship in one of their notebooks, and now supposedly this?...

Samsung, pick a stand! Are you one one side, the other, or both... we don't care where you go (because let's face it... your player was and is garbage), but pick a side already!

[MovieMinded]

I've come to find that pretty much anything I've bought made by Samsung has bugs, and their Blu-Ray player only goes on to further prove that fact. If they want to be Blu-Ray exclusive that's fine by me, HD-DVD doesn't need Samsung making a HD-DVD machine that gives the format a bad name. There are still plenty of other companies on HD-DVD's side.

[Leedogg]

Theres a few, but not alot moveminded.

[JU1CYFRU1T]

Theres a few, but not alot moveminded.

Yeah yeah... we all know that Blu-ray has a larger support base... but could you find an older picture... you know, something from like 2004.

Your "picture of fact" also leaves out the Xbox add-on... but hey, we need Samsung... NOT!

Movieminded is right, we don't need Samsung and their crappy players. I think it would be a "genius" move on the BDAs part to send them over, just to give HD-DVD a bad name... or is that what Toshiba did to Blu-ray?

[TaiwaneSTUD]

don't Apples also support HD-DVD?

btw, Samsung... is crap to me

i have no Samsung products and will never own one.

[hmurchison]

http://www.i4u.com/article6697.html
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/28/s...op-yes-HD-DVD/

Samsung is shipping a version of the M55 with HD DVD. Just because they say that aren't manufacturing a technology doesn't mean they won't use the technology created from another company.

Apple is not Blu-ray only. They even state this a month after joining the BDA Board of Directors. They are committed to both formats and members of the DVD Forum as well. HP is shipping a HD DVD laptop as well and will have a USB HD DVD drive coming.

I hate the misinformation that such logo comparisons generate.

[Tejstar]

But still the fact is that HD-DVD manufacturer support is very thin on the ground, I really do hope we hear of more manufacturers signing up at CES.