Blu-ray's Hardware Woes Stacking Up

An anonymous reader writes "The bad news just keeps on coming for Blu-ray. First, Sony halved its U.S./Japanese launch shipments of its Blu-ray powered PlayStation 3, blaming a shortage of blue lasers. Then, in the last two weeks, both Sony and Pioneer delayed the releases of their new Blu-ray players, refusing to cite reasons. And this week, at Blu-ray backer LG's annual dealer show, a previously announced LG Blu-ray player was nowhere to be found. LG product development director Tim Alessi had this to say: 'We will provide an announcement when the time is right.'"

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Read your own quote. What exactly does "introduced to the Japanese market in April that year" mean to you? Sony put the product on the market in April, 2003. Samsung and JVC are the ones that didn't get to the market until 2005.

Unfortunately "introduced" does not mean that it was placed on the market in this context. Unfortunately whoever used that word in the wikipedia article did not know what it means. As the sibling said, the standard had not even been formalized in 2003. It was literally impossible to sell a Blu-Ray player because Blu-Ray didn't mean anything. In particular they were still fighting over which codecs would be supported in both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray at that time.

Your own link contradicts itself and you did not take this as a reason to go do some additional research? here is an article (in macworld of all places) about how Japan and the US will share a region code when they come out "later this year" - it was from August 17, 2006. Here is an article from Japan today on August 30, 2006 about how Blu-Ray Discs and Players are to go on sale "from November" and also that "Nishitani said Sony plans to release Blu-ray players in the United States around October, but a launch date for Japan has not yet been decided."

YOU CANNOT TRUST WIKIPEDIA AS YOUR ONLY REFERENCE. I sometimes do refer to Wikipedia, and even cite it as a sole reference, but I either know what it is saying is true, or I tend to doublecheck somewhere else to make sure it is not full of shit.

In other words, you are a dumbfuck. Please go away and do not return. Thank you. BTW I may flame, but I'm correct, which puts me ahead of your sorry ass.