Why Toshiba will release a Blu-ray player this year

Why Toshiba will release a Blu-ray player this year

Check out this article.

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9885292-17.html?tag=dvdtown-20

I agree with the article 100%. I thought that Toshiba CEO was full of crap when he said Toshiba would focus on new upconverting DVD players and digital downloads....that was nothing but sour grapes.

Once Toshiba has a piece of humble pie they will push out a Blu Ray player, probably by Christmas as the article suggests. There is NO WAY they will sit back and watch Panasonic, Sharp, Pioneer, Sony, Samsung, etc etc make money off Blu Ray while they get left in the cold.

I have been against Blu Ray from the start but now that they have won...I would buy a player made by Toshiba with no worries. I'd pick them over all the other competitors. When it comes to getting things right the first time they have their sh** together.

[Post edited by wolvinator on Mar 4, 2008]

Intersting point brought up by a comment in that page....it will get sdvd to almost hd picture quality, but WHAT ABOUT THE AUDIO?

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Intersting point brought up by a comment in that page....it will get sdvd to almost hd picture quality, but WHAT ABOUT THE AUDIO?

You 're right about the audio...but most people have lousey sound systems and aren't using 5.1 systems yet let alone anything capable of True HD.

[Post edited by Bosshog7 on Mar 4, 2008]

How about a combo-player for HD DVD and Blu Ray, with a HD DVD profile that will play my France Pathe/Fox version of "Stalingrad" aka "Enemy at the Gates"

Do you think it would be wise for Toshiba would do battle with the BD folks again or would it simply be better to just jump into the BD ring? Read some of the responses to the article:

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by DeadmeatGA March 4, 2008 9:49 AM Actually Mr. Nishida was serious about "No Blu-Ray" comment. Toshiba has been sitting on a killer image enhancement technology called "Super Upconversion"(Toshiba branded Super Resolution that has been used by NASA and CIA for image enhancement for decades) that can computationally generate a native 960p frame by fusing nine 480p DVD frame sources running on CELL processor. Journalists, mostly Japanese but I did see one UK, who have seen this demo in action confirm the output does really look HD, being able to read previously illegible letters on DVD.

Toshiba originally intended to keep this technology on it and Sharp's HDTV sets only as a product differentiator, but Mr. Nishida's interview confirms Super Upconversion is now coming to DVD players in order to combat Blu-Ray and protect Toshiba's almost $1 billion/year DVD royalty.

So no Blu-Ray players from Toshiba, but a bunch of new Super Upconversion DVD players from Toshiba and its Chinese allies. Reply to this comment by Cophead March 4, 2008 10:23 AM Does it upconvert audio?? woops, I'll take lossless audio support on blu-ray thank you. Reply to this comment View all 2 replies Hide replies Processingby DeadmeatGA March 4, 2008 10:42 AM Anyhow, all major AV fan boards, especially Blu-Ray fans, are in in uproar about this Toshiba's new "Scorched Earch" policy, because they do understand that this could slow down Blu-Ray's adoptation enough to render it a niche format.
Having seen demos of Super upconversion in action, I can verify this is an extremely impressive technology, a synthetic HD technology that 95%

Toshiba CEO Nishida meant what he said. Super Upconversion all the way, no Blu-Ray from Toshiba.

Afterall, why fatten your competitor's wallet(Blu-Ray royalty) instead of protecting your own(DVD royalty)?

soyn will say in a few months, hey cool, you put up a good fight. now cut the crap, take this poduction cost cut, and make a blu player.

stop confusing people, with you high nasa upconversion, and crappy audio crap.

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