Blu-Ray Shipping-Has the war started?

This just in:
Samsung Ships the first Blu-Ray Player

Have others been shipped?

Sice I bought a Pioneer DV-37 back in 2001, I like this one:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/top/product/0,,2076_310069741,00.html

If you mean other Blu-Ray players, the Samsung is the first and only one on the market at this time. Again, for this type of player, Bill Hunt's comments at www.thedigitalbits.com are pretty good for the average consumer. He received one of the Samsung units and has tested four discs on it.

There are a number of interesting articles at AV Revolution relating to the new format war. Not only are there reviews of both the Toshiba HD-A1 and Samsung BD-P1000 (which note strengths and weaknesses for both players and some fairly wide variation in video quality from disc to disc with both formats), but there's also a rather unhappy HDMI evaluation and a bit of news about the possibility of a transport from Ricoh capable of handling both formats (which is the critical first step in developing a universal HD-DVD/Blu-ray player).

It sounds to me like Blu-ray's going to be a bit weak until the Sony, Pioneer, and Panasonic players arrive - the Samsung works, but isn't the most feature-laden and according to Bill Hunt it suffers from some iffy HDMI video output.