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Toshiba Cinema Series 62MX196 RPTV: On the Bench
Shane Buettner  |  Nov 27, 2006  |  0 comments
  • $3,099
  • 62" single-chip DLP (wobulator)
  • 1920x1080
  • Key Connections: Dual HDMI and component inputs, one VGA computer input, G-LINK (for TV Guide On Screen), Ethernet THINC port connection
Features We Like Xtreme BLAC for deeper blacks, CableCARD and Over-The-Air HD tuners,
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Toshiba Cinema Series XHD 72MX196 RPTV: Coming Attraction
Shane Buettner  |  Sep 13, 2006  |  0 comments
  • $4,800
  • 72" single-chip DLP (wobulator)
  • 1920x1080
  • Key Connections: Dual HDMI and component inputs, one VGA computer input, G-LINK (for TV Guide On Screen), Ethernet THINC port connection
Features We Like Xtreme BLAC for deeper blacks, CableCARD and Over-The-Air HD tuners,
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Toshiba Faces The Blu Music
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 06, 2008  |  1 comments
There's not much of a kind way to state our fascination with seeing how Toshiba would respond to this latest turn in the format war, Warner's move to exclusive Blu-ray support in 2008. On a primal level it feels almost like that guilty rubber-necking at a car wreck on the road. However, Toshiba's HD DVD point person Jodi Sally got up and out in front of the press straight away at Toshiba's conference and put on a very brave face in recounting HD DVD's successes.
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Toshiba Introduces New $599 1080p HD DVD Player
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 07, 2007  |  0 comments

Toshiba not only provided more details on its recently released second gen HD DVD players, the HD-A2 ($499) and HD-XA2($999), it shocked the throng of press by announcing the HD-A20, a $599 1080p player that will be available later this year.

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Toshiba's HD DVD Goes Where No Manufacturer Has Gone Before
Shane Buettner  |  Sep 05, 2007  |  2 comments

Toshiba's execs literally beamed in from the 23rd century to inform us of its new LCD flat panels and HD DVD players, the latter of which have already been announced. But speaking directly to the Trekkie nerd inside me.

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Toshiba’s Ultimate Choice
Shane Buettner  |  Sep 15, 2006  |  0 comments

Toshiba is flying the <I>UAV</I> colors at CEDIA 2006, letting everyone who sees its HD DVD booth know that the two high-def players have received our good housekeeping stamp of approval.

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Tower Speaker Reviews
Totem Acoustic Sttaf: On the Bench
Shane Buettner  |  Sep 13, 2006  |  0 comments
  • Two-Channel System Price: $1,595/pr.
  • Ported two-way with one 5.5" mid/woofer and one 1" "textile" dome tweeter
    HWD: 35" x 6.3" x 9.5"
We know. This is Home Theater magazine for chrissakes! But not everyone we know (or you know) is able or willing to consider a full-on five or seven channel surround system in their space. In addition to that, some people are music lovers first, and to them the tradeoff of owning a single pair of reference quality speakers is trump compared to littering the room with speakers. And hey, you can add a center and surrounds later! Look into our December issue to see if the Totem passes the two-channel challenge!
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Triad Triumphant
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 15, 2007  |  0 comments

Triad's Platinum speakers walked away with Loudpseaker System of the year, with a system with equal amounts of unbridled dynamic power and inner detail and finesse.

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TVs With Friggin' Laser Beams
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  0 comments
On Monday night (yes, I'm late), I went to a rave and a product introduction broke out. Mitsubishi's intro of LaserTV was all glitz and glam, complete with white chocolate martinis and dancing girls and swirling lights. And TVs. Mits indeed made one of the loudest, bravest and most fascinating product intros of CES in unveiling its LaserTV category. What's brave is that this is a large RPTV technology, with lasers as a light source, in a world that's not only going flat, but flatter and flatter by the minute.
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Two kinds of lies in the format war- lies and damn lies.
Shane Buettner  |  Aug 10, 2007  |  15 comments

Week in and week out the CE press is inundated with propaganda and counter-propaganda from both sides in the format war. Most of this stuff falls under the category of all being fair in love, war and marketing. But sometimes these things go a little too far.

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