LG announced the  LGBH200 Super Blu Player for watching both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs earlier this month. It'll cost $999 when it ships in October.

Apparently, the LGBH200 will have HDi support, 1080p output at 50/60Hz and 1080p upscaling of standard DVDs. It will be able to play audio CDs, and go online for bonus content. It can also access a full set of Blu-ray interactive features-where available.

This is however one of a slew of multi format players coming down the pike, there is one from Samsung at a similar price sporting both the Blu-ray and HD DVD  capability also.
This is a trend I think that will continue until one format finally wins out, (if it ever does)and given that increasingly these disk formats support greater functionality in their second and third generations of interactivity- ie the features that users can access when driving menus and controls- it seems nuts to bank on one format.

Would you ever want anything that cant play both?

 I was talking to James about this the other day, and we reflected on the fact that although the vlogging thing is just gathering steam, we have been doing it for a lot longer than most.

The video is from NAB 2001 which is an interview with greg Loewitz from pinnacle who of course are now part of Avid. We wre a small team of people that produced two daily segments and arcticles from the show floor.

It is so interesting to watch this again, and not only listen to the specs of technology that was current, but also to remember the streaming plays that companies were trying to work out. Streaming was the big buzzword then, and it was probably the streaming mantra that popped the first web bubble- when people figured that the internet and media and most importantly consumers, had a hell of a long way to go until it became a feasable reality. Now in 2007 the reality is with us. This stuff is going to cook.

You will have to click on the factoryfat.wmv link to watch it, as the play video feature does not work YET;-)

Finally,  what we would have given for a file based camera aquisition and the improved quality of todays codecs-

See you in 2007.

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A while ago I was going on about how interesting Pando was. (this link was imported in from my wordpress blog courtesy of James, and you will have to scroll down to see the Title "Sending big files over the internet..."

Glad to see that Scoble finally agrees...

Scooped you there Bob ;-)