Samsung BD-P1000 opened

[Funkstar]

I know a lot of these "lets disect the latest piece of gear" threads/articles aren't that great, but this is quite interesting. Not from the photos themselves, but when you compair them to the Toshiba HD-DVD player that was opened a few weeks ago.

http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/06/13/sam...en-pored-over/ (Via Engadget)

While the Toshiba HD-A1 is a P4 with 1gig of ram and runs RedHat, the BD-P1000 is a actually a hardware player. Although it came out later than the HD-A1, to me this seems like a more mature product, it isn't an engineering concept in a retail box.

EDIT: Meant to link to the HD-A1 thread, so here you go: HDDVD player pulled apart - it's a blinking PC!

[Skinleech]

Good one, will take a look at this when I get home from work.

I agree that actual hardware player is a much better idea than a pc in a different box. Though I'll probably end up buying a pc drive rather than a hardware player, were I in the market for a hardware player, I'd prefer one that was actually hardware and not a pc 'hybrid'.