January 7, 2007
LG’s super-expensive Super Multi Blue
Las Vegas: Here’s the high-definition DVD product they’ve all been talking about. Fire marshalls had to close the doors when too many press tried to crowd into LG’s news conference at CES this morning to launch their 2007 product line.
All the attention surrounded the Super Multi Blue high-definition disc player, capable of playing both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs and providing one solution to the format war between Toshiba and Sony.
LG said it would launch in the first quarter in the US and an internal drive for computers that handled both formats would also be available.
The LG announcement had a sting in its tail….it will retail for $1200, so at that price you could buy a Sony PS3 Blu-Ray games console, a Toshiba HD-DVD player, solve the format war and still have change.
If robotic vaccuum cleaners, Sandisk’s V-Mate and television fire engines tickle your fancy, have a look at our first CES slideshow. The FT’s full CES coverage is here
$1200!! Tell ‘em thier dreamin’
Posted by: Bobbio | January 8th, 2007 at 5:28 am | Report this commentcheaper to buy two seperate players.
Posted by: mc | January 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm | Report this comment