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Blu-Ray Launch Expected Next Week
grammar fascist writes "According to a Reuters article, two Blu-ray players and 'various titles' are expected in stores next week, June 20th. From the article: 'Blu-ray, one of two much-hyped high-definition DVD formats, debuts next week, but the launch is expected to be muted amid device delays and consumer confusion, industry analysts said on Thursday.' On the 20th, Samsung, not Sony, is launching a set-top player (Sony's is due this fall), and Sony is launching a Blu-ray compatible VAIO PC. Sony's fall set-top player will probably cost $1500. No word on the cost of Samsung's player yet, but I wouldn't expect it to be cheap."
Bless you, members of the home-video bleeding edge, who will muddy your hands during the legendary Format Wars so that we mere home-video mortals can finally decide how to best replace our DVD players in 2009. Thank you.
Please do be sure to post your blow by blow accounts of how you will be beaten within an inch of hope by this process, so that we may make snide comments while we secretly are grateful for your courage to wander into this firestorm of global-scale corporate tiddlywinks.
Winner takes all. "Begun, the Format War has."
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.