I used to look at that thing everyday when I was in car audio, people would drag their friends to come see it. It's nothing special, the picture quality sucks.

 

have to do the same thing with the ps3 h:

 

I have a Wii:boink:

 

yup just like I said n the earlier post.
u guys remember it used to be dvd- and dvd+ then at the end every dvd player plays both format.

 

This isn't quite the same idea, but close.

 

i used to have a goldstar tv..it was the curvyest tv evAr. the screen was sooo dome shaped i could almost watch tv from the side

 

I still have Beta VCR....it was the better format but lost out to VHS due to marketing.

 

my parents still have a beta in the basement. for no reason.

 

except that these players will still be $$$ and unless the blu-ray players come down in price (and i'm talking big time) there is going to be little to no reason for someone to buy this player.

 

The prime example of a format war, VHS vs. Betamax, needed to have a winner because of physical incompatibilities between the media formats. Having two formats which could never be compatible with each other wasn't sustainable by the companies publishing movies to video.

Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD on the other hand, have no physical incompatibility. The discs are the same size and use the same laser. It was only a matter of time until someone came out with a player that could read both. If LG and other companies get this rolled out to the mass market, all the manufacturers that are only on one side of the fence or the other will have to adapt to the other format to compete. Then the content providers have no real incentive to pick one standard or the other, and they can probably publish exclusively on one or the other, legions of early adopters be damned. Plus there's always the option of publishing on dual-format discs.