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Toshiba releases three CELL Regza 3D HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2010
Toshiba has announced a trio of 3D HDTVs in Japan, continuing the industry's steady march toward 3D adoption. All three models feature CELL processors, which lets them use realtime 2D-to-3D conversion on videos (although the effectiveness of the...
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Toshiba SD5700 Pushes Price:Performance Barrier
HT Staff  |  Sep 23, 2001
Good consumer electronics keep getting better and cheaper.
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Toshiba Sells Its Stake in SED To Canon
 |  Jan 21, 2007

Whither SED? That was a question on the minds of many journalists walking through Toshiba's city block-sized booth at CES 2007. As it turns out, Toshiba has sold its stake in the burgeoning flat panel display technology to Canon, its partner in the venture.

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Toshiba Sells Out Initial Small Run Of HD DVD Players
 |  Apr 20, 2006

HD DVD launched in retail stores with something between a whimper and minor bang earlier this week. Although there were only two HD DVD titles from Warner available in most stores, <I>The Last Samurai</I> and <I>Phantom of the Opera</I>, Toshiba's initial, admittedly smallish run of players was sold out after just two days of availability.

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Toshiba Shows Cell TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 09, 2009
Toshiba's first TV based on the Cell microprocessor made its debut at a Japanese trade show this week. The DVR-capable product will hit the shelves in Japan later this year and will make its U.S. debut sometime next year.
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Toshiba Shows Smarter DVD Player
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 18, 2008
Toshiba showed a DVD player with advanced upconverting capabilities last week, following through on an idea mentioned by its CEO five months ago in the wake of HD DVD's demise.
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Toshiba Takes an Ax to HD DVD Prices
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 14, 2008
Are you hankering to get into high-definition disc consumption at a bargain price? Toshiba has just made its HD DVD players even more attractive with big price cuts--though as a statement on the format's future, the move is ambiguous at best.
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Toshiba Takes HD DVD To China
 |  Nov 03, 2005

Toshiba is apparently going to attempt to swamp the market with HD DVD players ahead of the arrival in stores of standalone Blu-ray disc players or PlayStation 3, but is taking a high-risk route in doing so. The HD DVD developer and backer reached an agreement with and licensed their technology to Chinese manufacturers, opening the door to inexpensive players and the kind of price wars that have turned current standard definition DVD players into ubiquitous commodity items.

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Toshiba Takes Off the 3D Glasses
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 24, 2010
Would you like to watch 3D without glasses? Toshiba is developing a technology that will do just that.
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Toshiba Theater Bot Heals Heartache
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008
How is Toshiba managing to mourn the painful and expensive death of HD-DVD? Well, with a little bit of R&D therapy, it seems. Perhaps spending bucket-loads of cash on an adorable 11-inch robot of limited utility will soothe Toshiba's angst....
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Toshiba to Make Blu-ray Players
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 20, 2009

According to a story today in Japan's <I>Yomiuri Shimbun</I> newspaper, Toshiba will enter the Blu-ray market with players that can read BDs and DVDs by the end of this year.

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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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