LG's BH100 Blu-ray / HD DVD combo coming February 4th?
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted Jan 14th 2007 9:52PM
posted Jan 14th 2007 9:52PM
LG already told us that its new dual format player would be available in the first quarter of 2007, but we are surprised that we are already receiving unconfirmed reports from Best Buy employees that the date is going to be February 4th. Apparently the BH100 is already live in the company's system, according to our tipster. This isn't as surprising as seeing it on Best Buy's website almost instantly after the announcement, but we're still wondering what LG plans to do if the DVD forum disaproves its lack of support for HDi. We understand that rules are rules, but it's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing the only company to make a standalone player other than Toshiba.
[Thanks, Derek]
Controls on top? That seems a bit inconvenient for "stackers".
Perhaps it's large enough that you can put your other components on top of it, just toward the rear of the unit. The buttons would still be usable and the other components could still be stacked.
Someone commented here previously that HDi is /required/ for HD-DVD. Without it you don't even get the menu. Something doesn't add up..
Not sure I'm following the following quote...
"We understand that rules are rules, but it's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing the only company to make a standalone player other than Toshiba."
Hard to imagine? It's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing a company for putting out a player that handicaps their movies and makes the competitions look better? Every BH100 owner is going to buy the BD version of any movies that appear on both formats and get the full menu and extras shebang over the HD-DVD version of which the BH100 will play none of that. Gee, why would the DVD forum ever want to prevent that?
Looks like Best Buy has it, but at that price, why bother? You may as well buy a PS3 and a separate HD DVD player, it would cost you the same amount and you would be able to play games too. Further, if one breaks, you still have the other rather than having all your eggs in one basket. I don't see the point unless this comes down to the $800 range.
Agreed. Or you can just buy the PS3 and just stick with BD. If it does happen that HD becomes the more popular format, then you but a seperate HD player.
So Toshiba was lying when they said they won't back this player due to lack of HDi resulting in the LG player not being officially able to support HD DVD or use it's logo?
Aa I've said in the other thread on this player CompUSA already has them in their stores, for sale. They've had them in since at least last Thursday. I can take pictures if you want. ;)
a microsoft employee who spoke with LG was told that this product wouldn't last too long before a compliant version was released.
Dnyce here from Ccity firedog. Our systems have already been updated with this player. Our release date is feb. 1st and the price will be $1199.99. i really hate these format wars. why cant we all get along. or have some other super format that will be out all the rest. speaking off, has anybody heard anything new about that new format over in Asia that records HD quality movies onto existing capacity DVD's? the cost benefits of that thing would be tremendous over HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.