http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/ Engadget Comments for Samsung kills BD-UP5500 combo player before it ever truly lived http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/The fact that HD-DVD is a dead format and will be adding an additional unnecessary and unwarranted cost to both Samsung and the customer cannot be the reason.]]>Mar 6th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
People might not love wasting *their money, but the people who threw theirs at HD DVD knew that it could end up in the toilet. There is no market for combo players, the cost of manufacturing, designing, shipping etc. would not be covered back by the fraction of consumers eager to buy one.]]>Mar 7th 2008 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
Had the war continued, a combo player would have been the only win/win solution for both camps. My frriend called me telling me that his girlfriend's father wanteed to buy a dual format player and I did my best to convince him he was wasting alot of money ($900) and should just get a PS3. ]]>Mar 6th 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
I could not find any site showing or stating that the 360 add-on will work with the PS3 (to play movies at least). But it sounds really interesting.
Could you post a source to getting the add-on to work with the PS3?]]>Mar 6th 2008 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Are you talking about via Linux or natively on the PS3's OS?]]>Mar 6th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_HD]]>Mar 6th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
Amazing.]]>Mar 6th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
That said, I was probably going to get one of these. It would have been awesome to have a blu ray 2.0 and HDDVD player.

I could have picked all of the HDDVD sales clean and had one player to rule them all.



Truth be told though, I was definitely going to let others gunea pig this thing for me before I bought one. Sammy hasn't been that reliable lately.]]>Mar 6th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
I get better picture than I ever got out of my HD-A2, plus I get HD, BD, MKV, WMV-HD, DVD, DVD-A, XVID, Divx, and just about anything else I can throw at it. The only place it lags (and just a small lag) is the sound department, but the 7.1 cards that are coming out now should bring that up to par as well.

Quit wasting your time with standard consumer electronics! Don't be sheep!

R ]]>Mar 6th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/Mar 6th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/samsung-kills-bd-up5500-combo-player-before-it-ever-truly-lived/
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