I doubt the BDP-UP5000 will retail for less than $600. The 2 new Samsung BluRay players are priced like this:
BDP-1400 - $549
BDP-2400 - $649
So their new dual format player will most likely be more expensive than the BDP-2400.
Someone at avsforums explains how the original news article on the BDP-UP5000 was misunderstood:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthrea...&&#post10961540
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Definitely bad information... on the price.
Pocket Lint is referencing cdrinfo. cdrinfo never gives sources, but they probably ripped it from afterdawn, who referenced (incorrectly) Electronista, who referenced (correctly) the German site heise, who were the first to post the news, directly from Samsung Germany.
Relevant quote:
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Samsung meinte zu den Kosten für den interessierten Anwender lediglich, dass der Preis etwa 400 Euro über dem eines "einfachen" Blu-ray-Players liegen werde.
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Regarding cost for any interested user, Samsung said only that the price would be about 400 Euros over a "simple" Blu-ray player.
So yes, it'll be 400 euros more than a single-format Blu-ray player. It won't be 400 euros.
That's the problem of fourth-hand news.
The price of the BDP-UP5000 will be 400 Euros or about $550 above that of a regular standalone BluRay player. Expect this to be at around the $1000 mark.
We should probably ask one of the AD Staff to correct the price quoted in this news article since it's been proven to be erroneous:
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10261.cfm
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21 July 2007 17:58
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LG will be releasing the second generation versions of their hybrid HD optical disc drives for PCs. The new GGW-H20LI will retail for $500 USD and can read both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats as well as write dual layer BD-R/RE at 6x. The $400 USD GGC-H20LI can read both formats as well but cannot write to Blu-ray. Both drives can write DVD+-RW as well as CD-+RW.
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