If the thought of choosing between Blu-ray and HD DVD is already giving you a headache, hope may be at hand with the news that Samsung is considering producing a twin-format machine for release later this year.

A spokesman for the company is quoted on DigitalWorld Tokyo as saying: “We don’t have a plan to make an HD DVD-only player but are considering a universal player. We are preparing HD DVD now and if we launch a universal player it will be the end of this year or early next year.”