Samsung Electronics is following Japan's Toshiba Corporation in delaying its set top products which will be capable of playing next-generation optical media formats.

In an announcement by Samsung Electronics of South Korea the company states they will be rescheduling the launch date of its first Blu-ray disc player, the BD-P1000, from the original date of May 23rd to June 25th of this year.

This news article was written on April 6, 2006, quoting Xinhua News.