There is something wrong with Blu-ray? Sony is struggling to release PS3 for the Holidays, and has delayed their Blu-ray player release as well. Now Pioneer’s BDP-HD1 Blu-ray player is delayed for December. Pioneer’s reason for delaying is not too clarifying, as they refer to quality control improvements as the source of the delay.

First Sony had to announce twice that its BDP-S1 was going to be delayed until December 2006 due to software bugs. Now Pioneer has been delayed too, for unspecified failure to meet “quality control requirements,” which may or may not be related to the other assorted blue laser shortages. The BDP-HD1, which was due to come out this month (after having been delayed from its previous May launch), won’t ship now until December as well. The price, however, has dropped since we last eyed it at CES — it’s now down to $1500.

Source: Engadget HD