Toshiba to stop making plasma TVs
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TOKYO - Toshiba Corp. plans to abandon the plasma display panel television market and would begin next summer producing surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels for flat panel televisions with 40-inch or larger screens.
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No flowers, please (Almost) Forgotten Tech Toshiba's decision to end its production of HD DVD players and recorders effectively marks the death of the optical disc format once touted as the natural successor to the phenomenally popular DVD.â¦
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Japanese electronics giant may cease selling plasma TVs.
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The Japanese electronics giant threw in the towel on its HD DVD technology, announcing that it would no longer develop, produce or market disc players for the format.
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At just after 3:00 am Eastern Time, Toshiba officially pulled the plug on its efforts to promote and manufacture HD DVD home theater consoles and disc drives, announcing its intention to cease all manufacturing and promotional operations by the end of March.
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Euthanasia performed on its PDP TV range Japan-based Fujitsu has announced that it will end production of plasma screens due to poor profitability. The company was the first to commercially introduce this technology in 1992, but sales of plasma TVs have been falling behind those for LCDs.â¦
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Toshiba has abandoned the HD DVD high-definition video disc format, it announced Tuesday.
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Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will voluntarily recall AC adaptors for portable DVD players that may overheat and damage the players themselves.
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Toshiba plans to drop out of the plasma display panel television market and next summer will start producing surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels for flat panel televisions with 40-inch or larger screens.
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Reuters confirms Toshiba will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, which leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. Rob Beschizza reports in his Gadget Lab blog.
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With Blu-ray rapidly gaining momentum in the next-gen DVD war, UK retailer Woolworths has announced it will stop stocking Toshiba's HD DVD format in stores.
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Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is planning to give  up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs, conceding  defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp  (6758.T), a company source said on Saturday.
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Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said on  Tuesday it would gradually stop making liquid crystal display  (LCD) panels for televisions and computers, instead focusing on  smaller LCD panels.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp  surrendered  in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on  its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and  retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp  .
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Toshiba Corp is planning to give up on  its HD DVD format for high-definition video, conceding defeat  to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp, a  company source said on Saturday.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp. has slashed its  sales target for high definition DVD players and recorders  after disappointing sales in the U.S., putting a damper on  prospects for one of its growth businesses.
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The death of the VHS video recorder came a step closer yesterday when the UK&#39;s largest electronics chain said it would stop selling them.