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news.yahoo.com - 8/18/2008

Forget HD DVD: Toshiba focuses on plain old DVD (AP)

— news.yahoo.com — AP - After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba... Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD. (more) Forget HD DVD: Toshiba focuses on plain old DVD (AP)

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engadget.com - 8/18/2008

Toshiba stubbornly launches the un-Blu-ray, XD-E500 DVD player

— engadget.com — 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 -- ... (more) Toshiba stubbornly launches the un-Blu-ray, XD-E500 DVD ...

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crunchgear.com - 8/21/2008

New super-efficient and power-saving OLED-display unveiled

— crunchgear.com — It seems development of OLED displays is really picking up steam, with Japanese companies pioneering in this... field: Toshiba Matsushita Display (TMD) and Idemitsu Kosan say they managed to develop a small-molecule organic electroluminescent ... (more) New super-efficient and power-saving OLED-display unveiled

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Toshiba XD-E500 Upscaling DVD Player: Their Plan to Not Fight Blu-ray [XDE]
Gizmodo — ... , either. It's just that it feels like a little bit of a cop-out, even if Toshiba openly admits it's not meant to battle HD, just be a bridge to it for normal people. What I really want to see is a Toshiba Blu-ray player, and I want it to be totally awesome. [Toshiba] ...

Toshiba Upscaling DVD Player
Today @ PC World — ... but the XD-E500 is priced significantly lower than Blu-ray players and you don't have to trade in your old DVDs to get a better viewing experience. However, most Blu-ray players are also capable of upscaling your current DVD collection to 1080p. Toshiba recently lost the High Definition DVD wars to Sony's Blu-ray technology, and this is their biggest foray into DVD upscaling since then. The company is planning a massive ad campaign to tout its new technology and will be launching a new website soon to show off the XD-E500. The company ...

GBTV #423 | CEDIA #7
GeekBrief.TV — ... CEDIA Update #7 is full length today. Toshiba’s XDE DVD Players are another option to Blu-ray. They’re working on upconversion like we’ve never seen. ...