http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/ Engadget Comments for LG BH100 HD DVD / Blu-ray hybrid player in the wild and on sale http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/
Then again...Xbox 360 plus HD-DVD plus 20GB PS3 w/Blu-Ray...]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 18th 2007 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/
The DVD/HDDVD Combo discs are insanely expensive... I can't imagine how much more these will cost. I would rather have one format and be done with it, regardless of which format it ends up being...]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/
There's nothing preventing LG from releasing a free firmware update which adds iHD capabilities. They just haven't licenced the technology (yet).

Remember that HD DVD launched without multi-channel TrueHD playback and no Blu-ray players decode DTS HD Master Audio yet. The latter was enabled via firmware update a few months after release and DTS MA will be available for many players in Q1 or Q2.]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/
So basically a $1,200 Blu-ray player with crippled HD-DVD support. ]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/>iHD is the interactive layer. There's nothing preventing you from watching HD DVD movies and enjoying all the basic features. Very few discs use iHD right now.

Universal (the only HD-DVD exclusive studio) and many other studios is planning on moving a lot of the menus to iHD in the coming year, which means this player will not support those movies.

Clearly they couldn't licensee iHD since its a proprietary format designed by Microsoft (its a requirement for HD-DVD standard). The lack of a HD-DVD logo suggest maybe LG isn't paying HD-DVD royalties or isn't properly certified.

Only reason you would want these dual format players is to future proof yourself, but this player most definitely is not future-proof.]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/>i cant imagine hd dvd winning the format wars because then everyone would have an hd dvd player, but none of those sony pictures movies would be available on that format, and sony pictures does make some pretty popular movies.

Sony, Fox, and Disney were the top-grossing studios by ticket sales this last year, none of them support HD-DVD. Its gonna be hard to sell a format without Pixar and Disney movies, Spider Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, James Bond, etc.]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/>iHD is the interactive layer. There's nothing preventing you from watching HD DVD movies and enjoying all the basic features. Very few discs use iHD right now

Incorrect. HDi is what enables the menus, PIP features in films like Batman Begins, U-Control on Universal's Fast & Furious - Tokyo Drift. Warner has called its implementation IME, available on films like Superman Returns. Earlier films did not include anything other than the basic menu for selecting the audio or subtitles but that still used HDi.

Pick up a copy of Miami Vice and see how the menu works, this is what will be missing with the crippled LG player. All other features added that improve interactivity will not work on the lg. ]]>Jan 17th 2007 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 17th 2007 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/
Oh and Sony has made at least one good film. The Kung Fu Hussle was fantastic. Funny stuff. ]]>Jan 17th 2007 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37021

Vivid is very serious about Blu Ray. And I really wish you people would realize its not HD-DVD, but "HD DVD". That gets annoying.]]>Jan 18th 2007 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Can anyone tell me if someone is planning on bringing out a HD / Blu-ray cinema surround system?
Please !]]>Jan 18th 2007 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 18th 2007 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://gear.ign.com/articles/753/753296p1.html It just doesn't add up to me, but maybe I'm missing something.]]>Jan 23rd 2007 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 31st 2007 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Jan 23rd 2007 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Feb 1st 2007 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/Feb 1st 2007 1:33AM