As promised, Venturer shipped their new HD DVD player to North American retailers in time for the holidays. While HD DVD fans in the UK won't see a SHD7000 under their Christmas tree, they will be able to order one before the end of the year. Venturer announced today that the SHD7000 will debut in the UK on December 29th and be sold exclusively through the home shopping channel, QVC.
The new SHD7001 standalone High Definition DVD player from Venturer celebrates the next generation of DVD format, offering the High Definition sound and vision dream at an incredible price. Delivering 1080i video output via a direct, pure digital HDMI connection to your HD ready TV the result is a striking, unrivalled picture in staggering HD quality.

The SHD7001 delivers incredible three-dimensionality for all the latest HD movies with a sharp and stable picture quality and a rich colour palette. Far surpassing the picture quality delivered by the standard DVD format, the SHD7001 HD DVD player displays colours that are sublime and contrast rich, while motion, such as in sports action or high action films, which can quite often blur, is handled with ease delivering imperfection free visuals every time...

...The SHD7001 will initially be available to buy in the UK exclusively from QVC TV Home Shopping Channel from the 29th December, when it will be the featured product of the day (Today’s Special Value).
The SHD7001 will come as part of a special package that includes an HDMI cable and two HD DVD movies: Hulk and Troy. If you'd like to read more, Venturer's entire press release can be found here.