In Samsung's booth at IFA Berlin you will among other things find the company's first Blu-ray Disc (BD) products which are scheduled to be released next year. The most advanced model will be the BD-HR1000 which is a BD recorder with a 400 GB HDD. The BD-HR1000 will support playback of CD, DVD, DivX and MP3 too and you will also be able to connect it to PC via Ethernet or WLAN.
| 
Samsung BD-HR1000 |
Besides the BD-HR1000, Samsung plans to release a BD recorder without a HDD as well as a BD player, the BD-P1000. The BD recorder with HDD will cost about $2000, the BD recorder without HDD about $1200-1300 and the BD player about $1000.
Although Samsung is one of the founding members of the BDA, it has also a optical storage joint venture with Toshiba, the main company behind the competing HD DVD format. As a result of this Samsung says it will develop combo models which support both formats. You can find more information at heise.de and golem.de (in German).
Source: heise.de
Discuss this article with your fellow community members! We appreciate your valuable input, but please keep the reaction policy in mind and make sure your reaction is constructive.
here I will be the first to say it because i might as well do it instead of some serious person saying it like they really thought these drives would be 200 bucks. "OMG 1,000 bucks for a reader that is outragous. How am i going to "backup" all my movies when I have to buy a drive that cost more then my pc. Bluray sucks how can I afford this brand new device that stores massive amount of data if i have to pay 1,300 bucks for a burner and then another 30 per disc it's like they are not even thinking about poor me. I am not going to buy this item ever (or until it's affordable which is what happens to items like this because price of burners and media don't go up)" I can't wait till this stuff is cheaper when it hits 300 bucks i will buy a drive for sure.
[edited by psychoace on 02.09.2005 14:20]
By
shimman,
Friday 02 September 2005 17:48
not only the much restricted drm is a trun off, but the price is even worse.
unless they can lower the price of bd media & drives, bd might end up like next fdd (iomega's zip & sony's next fdd)
when broadband become a true broadband & hdd gets big enough & more expendable, on demand service might replace video bd & hd dvd
By
agomes,
Friday 02 September 2005 18:06
This a home device not a PC drive. If we go back slightly more than a couple of years, Philips introduced their first DVD set top recorder (no HDD yet, just discs) at a price close or above € 2000, and you know how prices are now for devices with hundreds of GB HDD.
What it doesn't say in the news is if it records HDTV in HD format and what the restrictions are for PC connections, DRM wise+
hahha i love shimman reply because he totally didn't read my sarcastic post. Blu ray will not go down because of it's prices right now. Dvd's didn't go down and they started at the same price. Considering inflation they are actually cheaper then the price when dvd's came out.
Oh also the higher bandwidth you get through the pipe the bigger the data gets. It will be pretty impossible to do on demand for hd video anytime soon because of storage and speed from the hard drives they are stored on. Think 1,000 people pulling 1 hd tv show from 1 local server with a bandwidth of 5-10mbps a second per person. That would make any company go broke.
[edited by psychoace on 02.09.2005 18:43]
Happy Birthday to you Vacio 
Crabbyappleton thank you for your reaction in the news section. 
kalas just logged in, Good to see you back!