Combo HD drives are the way forward

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FORGET THE WAR between Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats, it's thought by the folk over at ABI Research that dual-format players will, in fact, be quite the norm reports Digitimes.

LG Electronics, if you recall, launched the Super Multi Blue Player at everyone's favourite Vegas-based nerd-a-thon CES, which could play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. It certainly makes sense to this baffled geek that a universal player should become the norm, much like ABI Research, helping out the confused geeks who simply don't know which camp to side with.

Quoth ABI's Steve Wilson, "We believe that universal players will come to dominate the high-definition DVD player market." There's plans from Samsung to release a universal player soon too, and the mysterious "others" may take the same course of action before long, thinks Steve. The research group has placed forecast sales at 2.4 million players in 2007, all the way up to a hefty 55 million come 2011.

Source: theinquirer.net