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Toshiba Will Sell Blu-ray Player This Year
pcworld.com - 7/20/2009
Toshiba Will Sell Blu-ray Player This Year
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Exactly a year and five months after Toshiba brought an end to the high-definition disc format war, the Japanese consumer electronics company confirmed its plans to produce its own Blu-ray Disc player. Previously, rumors trickled in about Toshiba considering such a move; Japanese newspaper ...
arstechnica.com - 7/15/2009
Samsung unable to find a PMP, netbook buyer for 1.8" HDD
— arstechnica.com — The 1.8" hard disk market appears to be dying. Already, the market is down to two manufacturers,... Toshiba and Samsung, and when the latter announced its new 250GB, $200 1.8" HDD last week, the announcement had a rather stunning omission: IDE and SATA. ... (more) Samsung unable to find a PMP, netbook buyer for ...

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techradar.com - 7/19/2009
Toshiba forgets HD DVD, joins Blu-ray brigade | News | TechRadar UK
— techradar.com — Eighteen months after abandoning the HD DVD format, Toshiba has finally ceded to the inevitable and joined... the Blu-ray camp. According to the Daily Yomiuri newspaper, Toshiba will release a BD player later this year somewhere in the world, also ... (more) Toshiba forgets HD DVD, joins Blu-ray brigade | News | ...

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news.prnewswire.com - 7/21/2009
Toshiba Brings High Style and Innovation Home With New Digital Media Frames Featuring Wi-Fi(R) ...
— news.prnewswire.com — NEW YORK, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ' House Beautiful Magazine's Kitchen of the Year' - Toshiba America... Consumer Products L.L.C. ("Toshiba"), a market leader in home entertainment products, today announced cutting-edge advancements for today's connected ... (more) Toshiba Brings High Style and Innovation Home With New ...

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Toshiba to release Blu-ray player before end of year
Krunker — Toshiba’s finally joining the Blu-ray camp. Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Online confirms that Toshiba plans on introducing their first Blu-ray player before the end of the year – over a year and a half after the company discontinued the HD DVD format. Sony must be loving this one.. [Check it out via PC World] Technorati Tags: Toshiba, Blu-ray player ...

Toshiba planning Blu-ray player by end of 2009
SlashGear — ... Toshiba have sacrifice during their waiting period, but their initial plans to “drive mass market access to high definition content [with] high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies” has obviously failed to deliver as great a profit as they believe Blu-ray might.  No word on when we might expect to see Toshiba Blu-ray products reaching the US and Europe. [via PC World] ...

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