If this pans out to be true, it changes everything we’ve been told, about the impending Blu-ray, HD-DVD format war, considerably. Heise online a German technology site, appears to report that Samsung intends to “marry” a Blu-ray and HD-DVD drive together (sorry the translation was a bit rough). This fly’s in the face of everything we’ve been told so far, which includes “the rival technologies aren’t similar enough to combine into one device” and “it wouldn’t be feasible to make a high definition universal DVD player”.

I can’t speak to the validity of the report from CeBIT by Heise, but it goes without saying, that if Samsung can pull this off then the whole “Format War” may end before it ever began. This is one story I’ll be following closely.

Michael.G

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