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Toshiba stubbornly launches the un-Blu-ray, XD-E500 DVD player
Engadget — ... Oh Toshiba, has it really come to this? After a humiliating loss to Blu-ray, Tosh just unveiled its new XD-E500 DVD player. It's no run o' the mill DVD player mind you, this unit touts Toshiba's new eXtended Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology -- that ...

‘Subtle but noticeable’: Toshiba XD-E500 upconverting DVD player
CrunchGear — ... anyway), but it knows there’s plenty of life left in plain ol’ DVD. To that end the company has been showing off its $150 XD-E500, an upconverting DVD player that’s supposed to, I don’t know, beat the pants off other upconverting players. The AP uses the phrase “subtle but noticeable” to describe how the XD-E500 looks in comparison to another, unnamed upconverting player. ...

Toshiba releases the XD-E500; it’s a new DVD player folks
Gadgetell — ... discs. The Toshiba XD-E500 is expected to retail for around $149.99, a price tag which is less than half the price of a Blu-ray player and twice as much as the price of a regular “upconverting” player. The XD-E500 is due for launch in Japan today, however we’re expecting that it won’t be long before this DVD player gets an international release. We could all use a good alternative to the pricey Blu-ray players available in the market today. Read [Yahoo News] Full Story » | Written by Arnold ...

After Losing the Hi-Def Optical Drive War, Toshiba to Focus on — DVD?
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... DVD player. The XD-E500 has an MSRP of $149.99, which is twice as much as regular “upconverting” players, but it is less than half the price of a Blu-ray player. Toshiba demo’ed the player to reporters last week, playing the same disc in an XD-E player and a standard, $70 upscaling (Toshiba) model on side-by-side identical LCD HDTVs. According to reports , the different was subtle, but clearly the XD-E player had a sharper image. Toshiba is capitalizing on the slow uptake of Blu-ray; a recent ...