Samsung's crippled Blu-ray Disc recorder

Samsung is getting set to become the third manufacturer (following Sony and Panasonic) to release a Blu-ray Disc recorder (the big deal about Blu-ray discs is that you can potentially wedge up to 50GB of data onto one of them,
giving you plenty of space to record high-definition TV). Unfortunately Samsung gave consumers one very big reason not to buy this thing. Because of some annoyingness over finalizing formats Samsung weren't able to make the thing compatible with pre-recorded Blu-ray discs (cleverly known as BD-ROMs), which means it can only play rewritable Blu-ray discs and not high-def movies released on Blu-ray disc (should that ever happen). Due out by the end of the year, not that we really care at this point.

[Via I4U]