
Just when every patient, fence-sitting individual finally rejoiced that a single unit was being introduced to solve the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray
dilemma, we had a hunch things wouldn't be perfectly peachy. Sure enough, the
BH100's
dirty little secret could keep the machine a secret altogether, as it reportedly won't be able to claim HD DVD-compliance (and consequently, hit shelves at all) without support for HDi. Playing a bit of favorites, the player provides the goods to show off those
BD-J extras just fine, but users hoping to experience the lovely bonuses requiring
HDi would be sorely disappointed. According to BetaNews, the player cannot receive the necessary thumbs-up from the DVD Forum with such a void in its makeup, and even suggested a very dark, unwanted result could end up happening, you know, like the BH100 getting the axe. Nevertheless, we certainly hope LG gets on the ball and throws in the (
scarcely used thus far) HDi support, or else we could be facing
yet another reversed decision in the combo player arena.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WickyWoo @ Jan 14th 2007 10:48AM
HDi is used for everything, including menus on HD-DVD.
The player is going to get axed, implementing HDi would take months of R&D, and the players are already manufactured for shipping in 2 weeks
Instead they'll just disable the HD-DVD part, and ship it as the BR player it always was
humpty @ Jan 14th 2007 12:09PM
Hmm.. if they just disable the HD-DVD part, im sure some resourceful people could hack it to enable HD-DVD playback. Or, they could just source it for the BD/HD-DVD drive.