This has been floating around the net for the last day, and has had some discussion in the comments of
Matt's post earlier. Just to make sure everyone is clear, despite the title of this article, it doesn't say Blu-ray as a whole is delayed in Europe, only Pioneer products like the
BDP-HD1 player. Just like the US launch, we still anticipate Samsung's (
already-delayed) BD-P1000 will be the first Blu-ray player launched in Europe in September, not to mention the Playstation 3 console from Sony. Barring a statement to the contrary, we still assume there will be media available once those are available to buyers and that other players will follow.
As we noted previously, Toshiba's European HD DVD launch is a
bit more clearly defined, but we are still awaiting a date and price.
[Corrected manufacturer, thanks Grubert!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hmurchison @ Jul 11th 2006 6:40PM
So basically Blu-Ray was for all intents and purposes 8 months behind HD DVD despite all the non-playing mockups and bravado at CES 2006.
Fool me once...
ben furneaux @ Jul 11th 2006 9:57PM
Thanks for covering the EU/UK stuff too! Nobody else *cough CNET.co.uk* seems to care...
Grubert @ Jul 12th 2006 3:17AM
The article doesn't involve Philips, but *Pioneer*.
cowboybebop @ Jul 13th 2006 4:46AM
Indeed, thumbs up for HDBeat covering Europe as well!
yay
-cowboy