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Toshiba 32WLT66 LCD HDTV With Two HDMI Ports

Alan K — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:09:22 +0000

Toshiba has designed the new 32WLT66 LCD TV firmly with the future in mind. The technology used in this LCD master piece is way ahead of the game. There are two HDMI ports as well as an analogue and digital tuner.

Toshiba HDTV News – Toshiba HD-A1

Alan K — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:26:04 +0000

Much has been made of the format wars between HD DVD and Blu-ray, but most of it has been relegated to mere talk. Not anymore.

Toshiba is the first out of the gate, with its HD-A1 HD DVD player. The HD-A1 offers a perfect example of an ideal early-adopter product. It's got well-hyped bling (six times the detail of DVDs means gorgeous video!), a clunky feel (ever spend a minute waiting for a consumer electronics device to boot?), technical limitations (no 1080p output), minimal software support (20 titles by the end of May, hundreds, in theory, by year's end), and a relatively stiff price tag.

Interview – Mark Knox, Toshiba on HD DVD

Alan K — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:26:04 +0000

Just around the corner is the long-awaited launch of the HD DVD, one of two competing high-definition formats for the DVD optical disk. The stakes could not be higher for the movie business, less so for the manufacturers, and a hair pulling nightmare for the one's asked to finally pay for it all – the consumers.

Toshiba's new HD DVD Player uses Red Hat Linux

Alan K — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:26:03 +0000

Upon hearing rumors that Toshiba put a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 CPU and a gig of PC2700 DDR RAM in their new $500 high definition set-top DVD player, I was intrigued. When I heard that they also put in a standard desktop HD-DVD reader, I had to buy one and see if these wild accusations were true. So I called around and found that just about the last one available in Phoenix was to be had at a Best Buy on the edge of town. $560 later it was mine, and on its way to the surgery table for close inspection.

HD DVD Release Think Content Limitations

Alan K — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:41:51 +0000

HD DVD Release: think content limitations
Toshiba has released two HD DVD players in the form of one HD-A1 retailing for $500USD and a more up-market model HD-XA1 selling at $800USD. The release is two months before we ll see anything from the Blu-ray camp.

Watch an HD-DVD on a Laptop. And Then Recharge.

Alan K — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:41:50 +0000

One day you may have to buy the original "Star Wars" trilogy all over again. The Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV650 can play standard DVD's, and also plays the new HD-DVD's, which offer a crisper picture and enhanced video extras.

In Sony's Stumble, the Ghost of Betamax

Alan K — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:41:50 +0000

AT first glance, Amir Majidimehr does not look like a game-changer in the battle to develop the next generation of DVD players and discs. As the vice president for Windows digital media at Microsoft, he neither steers a Hollywood studio nor controls one of the many consumer electronics giants that are betting billions of dollars on one of the two new formats that promise to play high-definition movies and television shows.

A Battle of Formats

Toshiba's Yamada confident HD DVD will win in the end

Alan K — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:41:49 +0000

LAS VEGAS — While Blu-ray Disc backers convene this week to refine technical specifications and organize a plant tour of Panasonic’s pilot replication line, a key proponent of Blu-Ray’s rival platform, HD DVD, is taking a post-CES siesta and thinking, “What, me worry?”
Hisashi Yamada, chief technology fellow at Toshiba's Digital Media Network Co., said in an interview he feels no urgency to convince supporters that HD DVD disks are ready for prime time.