Super-DVD players spark format war
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?From London: “Not since the battle between Betamax and VHS has there been a consumer war like it - and there can only be one winner.
Having poured billions into rival high-definition DVD systems two hi-tech giants will finally go head-to-head.
Billed as the future of home cinema the two systems offer identical picture quality and both play standard DVD’s.
There is, however, one slight problem - the so-called Blu-ray discs will not work in rival HD DVDs, and vice versa.
With the battle lines already drawn the war will begin in earnest today (Monday) as Samsung’s DMP-BD-P1000 - the “world’s first commercial blu-ray disc player’ - hits UK shelves.”