Samsung plays dual standard DVD card

We wrote in May 2004 that Samsung was in the unique position of having a foot in both the camps, and earlier this week the firm told the FT Deutschland that if the parties didn't stop squabbling, it might concentrate their minds for them.

Choi Gee-sung told the newspaper that Samsung would release a unit that supported both HD and Blu-ray if the two camps didn't get their act together. That would be because otherwise the world+dog would get terribly confused.

So if Samsung can do it, then there's no real reason why the two camps can't get their act together. Hollywood will decide. But Samsung could be the catalysis for change. µ

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