Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player
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While the format war rages, movies must still be watched Review The HD format wars may be inching forward on the content front, but on the hardware side Toshiba has made a very aggressive move with the HD-EP30 - an HD DVD player which could be yours for less than Â£200. Not only that, but if you buy one now youâll get seven HD DVD discs thrown in for free.â¦
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Forget the high-def DVD format war; the Coby upconverting DVD player, available from Buy.com for $34.99 shipped, will make your movies look a lot better on your HDTV.
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InfoWorld - Toshiba's announcement to end production of HD DVD players and recorders will not affect the Xbox 360, even though Microsoft offers an optional stand-alone HD DVD drive for the game console, Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday.
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Could even be integrated into an HD TV Toshiba may be gearing up release an own-brand Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive, a senior executive from the company has apparently claimed.â¦
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InfoWorld - The first laptop computer to feature an HD DVD-R drive, Toshiba&#39;s Qosmio Q30, went on sale in Japan over the weekend.
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Blog: Originally announced at $599, the BDP-S300 model next-gen DVD player will sell for $499 when it ships this week.
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Samsung Corp's 000830.KS Samsung   America Inc on Thursday said it would make some improvements to   its Blu-ray high-definition DVD players ahead of the holiday   season.
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Toshiba launches its new high-definition DVD player in Europe, starting a battle for living room domination.
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Toshiba (6502.T) said on Friday it would  introduce its first two High Definition DVD players (HD DVD) in  Europe by November, priced between 599 and 999 euros  ($768-1,280), well above prices in the United States.
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Turn up at the right shop, at the right time Buy a copy of the HD DVD Complete Matrix Trilogy box set from HMV's 150 Oxford Street, London store next Monday morning and you could walk away with a freebie Toshiba HD-E1 HD DVD player too.â¦
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TOKYO -- Microsoft Corp. is introducing an external high-definition DVD player for the Xbox 360 video game console to match the Blu-ray disc functions of Sony Corp.'s upcoming PlayStation 3. The software maker also said yesterday that it will launch the Xbox 360 in India this week and in Africa next week.
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Toshiba struck another blow for its high capacity DVD technology yesterday when it announced a new disk which supports both the existing DVD and the HD-DVD format.
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Toshiba said today it will make its second generation of high-definition DVD players available for sale in the United States. The players will come in two models -- the entry-level HD-A2 and the higher-end HD-XA2 -- and offer improved player performance over the current line, said Toshiba vice president of marketing Jodi Sally.
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(InfoWorld) - If you're thinking of using your PC to play high-definition Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD movies then you might have to think again. While computer drives for both blue-laser formats make PC playback a possibility, you'll need to have a high-performance PC if you want to watch the majority of movies. Even then, some movies might not playback smoothly, manufacturers of multimedia playback and burning software suites said at this week's Ceatec show in Chiba, Japan. HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc allow the use of three compression systems: MPEG2, VC1 or MPEG4 AVC. To date, most movies have used the latter but that's the hardest for PCs to process, said Noritaka Baba, a manager at CyberLink. The company produces the Power DVD software and other similar multimedia suites. CyberLink recommends that consumers have at least an Intel 3.2GHz Pentium D processor, which is one of the fastest processors that Intel makes. For laptop PCs, the company recommends at least a 2GHz Core Duo T2500 processor for playback of MPEG4 AVC encoded content. Discs using the VC1 codec can be played back with slightly less powerful hardware and MPEG2 encoded video requires the least amount of processing power, he said. In a demonstration on the HD DVD booth at Ceatec, a computer was playing the movie "Shinobi." Encoded in MPEG4 AVC at about 20Mbps it required about 70 percent of the power of the 3.2GHz Pentium D processor for playback, said Kazutaka Aiso, manager of the OEM sales group at Nero's Japan unit. He said that of all the software on the market there is one title that won't playback smoothly on a PC. The title, "Yozakura," was the first HD DVD movie on the market in Japan and consists of high-definition images of Japanese cherry blossoms. The video on the disc averages around 30Mbps and that's just too much for today's PCs to handle, he said. CyberLink and InterVideo, which produces the WinDVD software, also reported problems playing that title. The problems only apply to playback of high-definition video because processing of the video needs to be done in real time. Consumers can get away with much less powerful hardware if they want to burn HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc media -- it will simply take longer to complete the task as the processor's computing power drops, said Baba. The advice of the software makers is borne out by the first computers to feature drives for the new disc formats. Sony's Vaio L computer, which was launched earlier this week at the show and includes a Blu-ray Disc drive, runs on Core 2 Duo processors running at between 1.73GHz and 2.16GHz.Â NEC's Valuestar X, which is also based on a Blu-ray Disc drive, runs a 3.4GHz Pentium D processor. AndÂ Toshiba's HD DVD-based Qosmio G30Â has a 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor inside.
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Studies and stats at the ready If youâve bought an HDTV, but arenât even considering buying a high definition (HD) DVD player any time soon, then youâre not alone. A report by the NPD Group has revealed that consumers are still utterly confused by the HD message and that most are still happy with the traditional DVD format.â¦
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NEC, Toshiba will put the next-generation DVD technology in desktops and laptops next year. NEC plans to start selling desktop PCs equipped with HD-DVD (High Definition/High Density-DVD) drives at the end of 2005, the company says.
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There&#39;s a reason progressive-scan DVD players are selling for as little as $29 these days. They are about to be replaced by something better -- and, of course, more expensive.