Toshiba: No Blu-ray laptops

In a surprising move, the Toshiba Europe CEO, announced that the company is not looking to add Blu-ray capabilities to its laptops.  The HD-DVD creator, released information on a new line of laptops, none of which contain a high-definition drive.  Instead the laptops support upscaling of standard DVDs only.  When asked about the omission of Blu-ray support, Alan Thompson, CEO for Toshiba Europe said, “At this present time we are not using Blu-ray. Blu-ray is just one of many ways that you can get HD content and is not required for accessing HD content.”

We’re wondering how long Toshiba is going to put its money on it’s ‘new’ upconverting technology until it goes Blu.  In the meantime, it’ll bets are on as to who gives in to Blu-ray first; Toshiba or Microsoft.

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Never say die: Toshiba to release ‘high resolution’ DVD player

Looks like Toshiba is rising from the grave and trying to give Blu-ray yet another fight. Toshiba is planning on releasing a DVD player that can produce high-resolution images from a standard DVD, company sources said Thursday. This super HD-DVD player 2.0 (or whatever they’re going to call it) includes Toshiba’s new technology that’s made possible by a large integrated circuit that can instantly convert images produced in DVD format into high-resolution images. The plan is to sell DVD players with this new LSI and give Blu-ray another run for their money.

Ahem, ahem, we’ll see how this rematch goes for Toshiba. Looks like they have a much smaller fighter this time and Blu-ray has only gotten stronger.

[vnunet] via [EngadgetHD]

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