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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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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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