LG to unveil dual format HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player at CES

[Linux23]

This is old news.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Nice... but too bad its LG and not a company that produces better quality stuff.

Where do you get your information from? LG makes some pretty good appliances/electronics.

LG is short for Lucky Goldstar. If you aren't familiar with that name, then you may not realize that "Goldstar" (their old product name) is synonymous with "crap". They shortened their name to "LG" sometime in either the late 90's or early 2000's because everybody got wise to the level of quality to expect from them. Believe me when I say that they still produce nothing but crap.

while you weren't looking, Korean manufacturers got their act together.

I believe LG lcd panels are in dozens of manufacturer's monitors, laptops, and HD tvs, for example.

 

[AMCRambler]

Bah! Both formats are already obsolete. I've invented Uber DVD which will hold 3 times as much as a Blu Ray disc, change diapers, take the nagging wife out to dinner and mow the lawn. Eat my shorts Sony!

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Nice... but too bad its LG and not a company that produces better quality stuff.

Really... IIRC my 2005fpw has a LG-Philips LCD panel and it's awesome.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Tom

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Nice... but too bad its LG and not a company that produces better quality stuff.

Where do you get your information from? LG makes some pretty good appliances/electronics.

LG is short for Lucky Goldstar. If you aren't familiar with that name, then you may not realize that "Goldstar" (their old product name) is synonymous with "crap". They shortened their name to "LG" sometime in either the late 90's or early 2000's because everybody got wise to the level of quality to expect from them. Believe me when I say that they still produce nothing but crap.

while you weren't looking, Korean manufacturers got their act together.

I believe LG lcd panels are in dozens of manufacturer's monitors, laptops, and HD tvs, for example.

...because they produce cheap components that manufacturers use to lower the overall bottom line of their final assemblies. Quanity sold has little to do with quality and much more to do with price.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Tom

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Nice... but too bad its LG and not a company that produces better quality stuff.

Where do you get your information from? LG makes some pretty good appliances/electronics.

LG is short for Lucky Goldstar. If you aren't familiar with that name, then you may not realize that "Goldstar" (their old product name) is synonymous with "crap". They shortened their name to "LG" sometime in either the late 90's or early 2000's because everybody got wise to the level of quality to expect from them. Believe me when I say that they still produce nothing but crap.

while you weren't looking, Korean manufacturers got their act together.

I believe LG lcd panels are in dozens of manufacturer's monitors, laptops, and HD tvs, for example.

...because they produce cheap components that manufacturers use to lower the overall bottom line of their final assemblies. Quanity sold has little to do with quality and much more to do with price.

that isn't necessarily true. Many products can be produced with better quality with high volume production, electronics is one area where this is often true. The volume of product justifies the expense of extremely advanced production machinery, which then yields better products.

Korea has some of the leading electronics manufacturers in the world, because they have some of the newest production facilities in the world. LG and Samsung are two of the companies that have dramatically improved the quality of their products in the last decade.

Korea has done the same thing in the ship building business.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: michaels
DVD will pwn them both

Agreed.

Do you have some sort of learning disorder or what?

um.... HD is here, and while DVD is continuing to gain ground, so will the HD formats, and eventually there will be a tipping point where either DVD will slow down and one of the competing HD formats will take ground, or a new format that's better than both may show up (especially if the two continue to stay at a no-winner-in-clear-site type of race).

i can't see DVD staying when HDTV is slowly growing as the type of TV to get when an old TV fails. With all the HD consumers are having shoved down their throats (cables offering it and promoting it, HDTV's being the prominent display in any electronics section of any bigbox store, etc etc), they are kind of seeing it as something they are going to have to accept. Especially with cheap HDTV's getting ever-so-cheaper, they are reaching the cost of the higher-end SDTV CRT's. That's a good market point to be in, and that price is going to skyrocket downward, at least analysts predict so.

what he said.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: fireandicefuel
I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg and CES 2007 blows us out the water when it comes to our expectations.

i hope so too.

1080p movies FTW!

 

[jamessb9]

yeah, found the story at PC World:

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003408.html

any idea on a price point for these things - that is in the next year or two when the hype settles down?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Nice... but too bad its LG and not a company that produces better quality stuff.

Really... IIRC my 2005fpw has a LG-Philips LCD panel and it's awesome.

I think my Olevia 332H 32" HDTV also has an LG LCD panel and it looks great! It also only cost me $573. Cheap does not always equal crap.

 

[Queasy]

Best Buy lists this new player as "Coming Soon" with a price of <breathe in> $1,199.99.

 

[RgrPark]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: Tom

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Nice... but too bad its LG and not a company that produces better quality stuff.

Where do you get your information from? LG makes some pretty good appliances/electronics.

LG is short for Lucky Goldstar. If you aren't familiar with that name, then you may not realize that "Goldstar" (their old product name) is synonymous with "crap". They shortened their name to "LG" sometime in either the late 90's or early 2000's because everybody got wise to the level of quality to expect from them. Believe me when I say that they still produce nothing but crap.

while you weren't looking, Korean manufacturers got their act together.

I believe LG lcd panels are in dozens of manufacturer's monitors, laptops, and HD tvs, for example.

...because they produce cheap components that manufacturers use to lower the overall bottom line of their final assemblies. Quanity sold has little to do with quality and much more to do with price.

That's like saying, "Hyundai makes crappy cars," just because they used to.
LG, just like Hyundai, used to suck but got their act together.
Get with the times.

 

[bennylong]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Best Buy lists this new player as "Coming Soon" with a price of <breathe in> $1,199.99.

This will sell as well as the VHS/BETAMAX combo VCR

 

[mrrman]

to expensive as all new toys are...hope it does well and drops like a rock in price

 

[GTaudiophile]

I am looking forward to the SATA version for my PC for $30 like today's DVD-ROMs.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I am looking forward to the SATA version for my PC for $30 like today's DVD-ROMs.

$30 is too much, unless it records to Bluray/HD-DVD as well.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

It's too expensive, for that price you can get a PS3 and Toshiba HD-A2 and have money left in the bank. If you're more of a gamer, you can buy a PS3 + Xbox 360 w/HD-DVD add on for the same price. Had this been priced at $999 it would have stood a chance, not at this price.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
It's too expensive, for that price you can get a PS3 and Toshiba HD-A2 and have money left in the bank. If you're more of a gamer, you can buy a PS3 + Xbox 360 w/HD-DVD add on for the same price. Had this been priced at $999 it would have stood a chance, not at this price.

No HDMI 1.3 and doesn't support all IHD features is also another downer. Still, it's a step in the right direction. Hopefully, more manufacturers will jump on board and make this stupid format war irrelevant.

 

[DVK916]

For Korean Electronic Companies:

Samsung>>LG

 

[mrrman]

Warner tackles the HD/Blueray player wars

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20070104060353.html

 

[GTaudiophile]

Here is the drive in action!