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At a press conference today at CES 2007, LG introduced the first player capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. The words on the drawer of the player read "Super Multi Blue Player," but ...
LG has announced its second HD DVD/Blu-ray player, following up on its pioneering BH100, which won CNET "Best in Show" award at CES 2007.
Fig. 2: Reading the Blu-ray/ DVD combo ROM disc Main Features World's First Combined Storage Media for Blu-ray and DVD Content World's first Blu-ray/ DVD combo ROM disc uses advanced positioning and ...
Combo CD/DVD/BD burner and UHD Blu-ray player The industry has been awaiting the release of the first UHD Blu-ray disc drives for PCs ever since the Ultra HD standard was announced during CES 2016.
Melding a little of the new with a little of the old, Sony has recently released a Blu-Ray Betamax combo device so one can still enjoy his Beta library as well as his ever growing HD Blu-Ray DVD ...
8X internal Blu-ray disc combo drive with LightScribe now available at Walmart Lite-On, a global leader of optical storage solutions, announces the availability of the iHES208 8X internal Blu-ray disc ...
Fresh from the rumor mill: LG will drop production of the BD199 Blu-ray Disc player as it considers developing a combo HD DVD / Blu-ray player . If uncertainty in the format war between the next ...
We reported last Friday that Pioneer was planning to release its BDR-103 burner as a combo HD DVD/Blu-ray drive, but now the company denies any such thing. A Pioneer rep said his comments made to ...
March 10 — Blu-ray Disc-supporter LG Electronics surprises the industry with news that it’s developing an HD DVD drive. March 31 — Toshiba launches the world’s first HD DVD player, the HD-XA1.
DVDs and Blu-rays are built practically the same, but given that Blu-ray players can play DVDs just fine, it seems strange that Blu-Rays themselves are unable to work on DVD players in the same way.