Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Ricoh announces Blu-Ray/HD-DVD hybrid player

From CEPro.com:

http://www.cepro.com/news/editorial/14185.html

A couple of points:

First, This article comes as a bit of a shock considering that I've been told by sources from several different manufacturers that Sony has been playing serious hardball with Blu-ray, and is threatening to revoke your Blu-ray licence if you intend to create a universal player. Consequently, like many other bold press releases lately, I will believe it when I see it.

Secondly, RICOH!? Obviously, they're emboldened by rival office equipment/computer builder HP's semi-successful launch of their television business. I imagine that it's only a matter of time before Pitney-Bowes debuts a portable media player to go up against the iPod and the mysterious portable player Microsoft announced last week.

Okay, maybe not.

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