Samsung's format war peacemaker, the Blu-ray and HD DVD swallowing BD-UP5000, has finally been unveiled. Looks good don't it?

Here it is: the player that'll be gracing the homes of hi-def fence sitters up and down the land.Announced way back in April, Samsung's finally given us a proper glimpse of its new one-for-all machine that'll spin Blu-ray discs, HD DVDs and even DVDs if you ask it nicely. It'd probably have a stab at Laserdiscs if the slot was big enough.All splendid but it sadly won't be quite as cheap as we'd hoped – coming in at around $1050, rather than the $545 figure first touted.Still, it'll manage 1080p in both HD formats and for DVDs too, thanks to the same HQV upconversion gubbins found in the …

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