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Toshiba Towering Over Times Square
SV Staff  |  Jul 17, 2008  | 
Next time you're in New York City, look up in the sky!  It's a bird! It's a plane!  Nope -- it's the new Toshiba LED display taking over the prime spot on top of One Times Square, 285 feet over the crowds on Broadway. This spot used to...
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Toshiba tries to back out of World Cup free TV deal
SV Staff  |  Jul 14, 2010  | 
Few people were expecting Spain to win the World Cup. Toshiba, in particular, put a significant amount of money on the line based on that. The company offered to pay back in full any money spent on a Toshiba TV in Spain if the Spanish team wins...
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Toshiba working on glasses-free 3D TVs
SV Staff  |  Aug 24, 2010  | 
Glasses-free 3D TVs have been a long time coming, but they still haven't come out yet. That might change if Toshiba has anything to say about it. According to CrunchGear, Toshiba might release 3D TV models that don't require glasses by the end of...
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Toshiba working on headache-free 3D glasses
SV Staff  |  May 19, 2010  | 
Active shutter glasses are useful for displaying 3D video because they get rid of the "ghosting" that can appear with passive glasses. Active glasses work by using liquid crystal lenses to rapidly switch on and off between the two eyes, ensuring...
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Toshiba X-Series Projectors Offer Twice the Light
HT Staff  |  Nov 12, 2000  | 
You want brightness? Toshiba's got it. The company's new X-Series LCD multimedia projectors produce up to 2400 ANSI lumens, bright enough to create startling images in well-lit rooms.
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Toshiba's Feature-Packed Budget Camileo
SV Staff  |  Jul 29, 2008  | 
Who can resist a budget-priced piece of gear that still packs in the features you want? If you've put off buying a camcorder, this one deserves a closer look. The Toshiba Camileo H10 is an SD-based high-definition camcorder that records in 720p....
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Toshiba's HD DVD Updates: Too Little Too Late?
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2008  | 
Nothing like beating a dead horse, but Toshiba has just released version 4.0 software updates for their HD DVD players. Umm . . . Does someone want to tell them the format isn't really around anymore? Granted, there are a lot of players out there,...
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Toshiba's JournE is a touch-sensitive media tablet
SV Staff  |  Sep 03, 2009  | 
It's not the Mac tablet that the internet has been clamoring about for the past few months, but Toshiba's touch-sensitive media tablet is looking pretty spiffy. Behind the 7-inch screen is built-in WiFi and support for a bunch of video...
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Toshiba's Regza Rising in Europe
SV Staff  |  Aug 28, 2008  | 
More news from Berlin's IFA, courtesy of EngadgetHD. Toshiba has announced new additions to the Regza line of LCD HDTV's, with a greater variety of sizes and features. These additions are across many series. For example, the XV line has more...
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Toshiba's Sexy Little Pocket Pico Projector
SV Staff  |  Sep 12, 2008  | 
Tiny LED projectors aren't on everyone's wish list, but you gotta admit, this is a sexy little projector. The Toshiba LED pocket projector debuted at Europe's IFA 2008 show. This little specimen weighs in at a scant 100 grams, and measures just 10...
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Toshiba's Turning Green
SV Staff  |  May 14, 2008  | 
Toshiba changed their stripes when Blu-ray demolished HD DVD. So, in addition to abandoning red, they're going green. Methanol fuel, produced naturally from a variety of sources, is the main component in Toshiba's Direct Methanol Fuel Cells....
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Toshiba's Upscaling LCDs
SV Staff  |  Aug 28, 2008  | 
We've got to say this: Perhaps it was good for most of us that HD DVD failed. It seems that failure has prompted Toshiba to really step up the developments for standard-def DVD. Not long ago, we talked about Toshiba's upscaling DVD players. Now...
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Toshiba/TiVo Combo Player
 |  Nov 17, 2002  | 

<A HREF="http://www.tivo.com">TiVo</A>'s stand-alone digital video recorders (DVRs) may not have taken the market by storm, but the core technology&mdash;a hard-disk recorder&mdash;has begun to appear in a range of new products now on the market or to be introduced soon.

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Tough Times Everywhere: FED Factory Falls Through
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008  | 
If you thought you were the only one with financial woes these days, well . . . you're not alone. When Pioneer stopped doing their own manufacturing of their plasma panels, their factory was left empty, and their workers looking at the...
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Tower Construction Could Delay HDTV
Barry Willis  |  Apr 12, 1998  | 

Delays in tower construction could cause broadcasters in some big cities like New York and Chicago to miss their government-mandated May 1, 1999 deadline for initiating HDTV. The problem is this: The strength of terrestrially transmitted digital signals is dependent on the height of transmitting towers, and big-city broadcasters are having trouble finding the space to build them. "The rollout might be a little slower than anyone anticipated," said <A HREF="http://www.nab.org/">National Association of Broadcasters</A> executive vice president Chuck Sherman at the NAB's annual convention in Las Vegas.

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