Blu-ray and HD DVD players don't impress

CNET reports they saw a bunch of Blu-ray and HD DVD players at CES 2006 and they complain most of these players didn't look impressive. Most of them looked entirely un-high-tech, they say:

All kidding aside, it was shocking how entirely un-high-tech most of the Blu-ray and HD DVD players on display looked. Each of the formats was represented by machines from many of the leading consumer electronics manufacturers--Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, RCA, Mitsubishi and so on--yet one would have walked away from perusing each of the exhibits with a sense that the companies had neglected line items for design in their budgets.

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