Samsung Electronics the first company to introduce a Blu-ray disc player will introduce a dual format High-Definition (HD) optical disc player in time for the holidays.

Samsung’s Duo HD player (BD-UP5000) will fully support both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats and their interactive technologies, HDi and BD-Java. With the Duo HD consumers can enjoy additional studio content such as trailers, director’s comments, more elaborate interactive menus and behind the scene footage. The new Duo HD joins Samsung’s next generation DVD line-up which includes Samsung’s second generation Blu-ray player available at retail this month. Together, these two models offer the consumer a strong line of High-Definition players to match Samsung’s award winning, and best selling, line of HDTVs.

“We welcome Samsung’s Duo HD player as another solution in the marketplace that will help reduce consumer confusion and buyer hesitancy towards HD media,” said Ron Sanders, President of Warner Home Video. “This is an innovative product that can move us closer to mainstream consumer adoption of HD technologies.”

Apple announced in a statement yesterday that OSX 10.5 Leopard will be delayed until at least October.

“While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us.”

We previously reported that the OS was originally planned to be released during Apple’s WWDC in June. However members of the development team for Leopard were pulled away from the project for some last minute tweaks to the iPhone software forcing the release date to be pushed back.

Apple plans to have a beta version of Leopard available to developers at WWDC and then release the full version in October.

[via Apple News Release]

Warner Home Video has just announced 2 new Matrix HD-DVD collections coming on May 22. The Ultimate Matrix Collection (HD-DVD) and The Complete Matrix Trilogy (HD-DVD) will take you inside The Matrix universe as never before.

Both sets are under $100 and we have no idea what is in each set, although the Ultimate set contains over 35 hours of bonus features. 35 hours! Wow how much time to people have to waste?