...D player side, where there has been very little news recently, we have seen the bottom fall out. The Toshiba HD-A3 now has an average price of $80, and the number of retailers carrying it is on ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 09:59
There has been been a lot of speculation how Toshiba will change its
high definition strategy now that HD DVD is officially gone. The Blu-ray adventure may have cost Toshiba about $1 billion,
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 18:05
...undingly defeated. By the end of February, prices began to climb. This is just around the time that Toshiba announced it would stop producing HD DVD players and format pioneer Universal decided...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 08:36
...ok industry this year. Following the MacBook Air,
the Lenovo Thinkpad X300 and Acer’s Gemstone notebooks, Toshiba now
also has ‘stunning’ notebooks that provide a “premium blend of modern
style, pe...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:20
...f Xbox 360 owners ended up purchasing the drive. Perhaps Microsoft was caught on the wrong foot when Toshiba announced to shut down HD DVD, but the company surely should have seen (and certainly...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:38
...re looking back in time to recap how the defeat of HD DVD developed. Following the announcement of Toshiba to pull the plug on HD DVD, we felt that it was time to have a closer look at our rep...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21
The HD format war is officially over, as Toshiba today announced that it has stopped developing, manufacturing or marketing of HD DVD players.
Tokyo (Japan) – The HD format war is officially over,
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 08:42
...on life support after Netflix, Best Buy and Wal-Mart dropped the format last week and it appears that even Toshiba has lost all confidence that it can win the format war, industry sources said on Satu...
Saturday, February 16, 2008 13:20
...er of the high-def format war. HD DVD better has a secret weapon that it can aim at Blu-ray now. Otherwise Toshiba can only hope for a miracle or actually admit defeat. But it is not only Toshiba that...
Monday, February 11, 2008 21:00
...port is really not important in the format war, and hasn't played a very big role in past generations. Toshiba remains is the major driver in developing and marketing HD DVD and thus it commands t...
Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30
Microsoft today announced that it will be forming with Toshiba the Advanced Interactivity Consortium (AIC), intended to become an “open forum” that aims to accelerate the adoption of &ldq
Thursday, October 04, 2007 16:37
...es of Blu-ray in movie sales are pretty substantial for a format war just one year in the making. However, Toshiba says standalone HD DVD players are outselling standalone Blu-ray players by a margin ...
Friday, August 17, 2007 16:23
..., Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC and Silicon Image Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba Apple, Intel, LG, National Semiconductor, Samsung, Silicon Image Agilent, AMD, Apple,...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 16:50
...0 add-on to around $180. The announcement was made at this week's Comic-Con show in San Diego. Toshiba 's least expensive player was cut to around $300 several weeks ago, with retailers...
Thursday, July 26, 2007 09:52
...ss to HD DVD technology knowledge through TSST, a product development and manufacturing joint venture with Toshiba , the primary supporter of the HD DVD format. Samsung also announced its first Blu-r...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:37
...movie studio, sending clips to other HD DVD players, and voting in interactive polls are all possible with Toshiba 's latest update to the HD DVD architecture. Wayne (NJ) - Downloading bonus conten...
Friday, June 29, 2007 10:06
... had three early products pointing the way to the future - the two Touchsmart machines from HP and the hot Toshiba R400 laptop blazed the way. But they lacked the coming features like 802.11n support,...
Friday, April 13, 2007 09:10
...i Blue Player - it is about the size of a mid-80s VCR and carries a whopping price tag of $1200. Sony and Toshiba are still very much engaged in pushing their own formats. But not all hope is lost th...
Monday, February 26, 2007 19:11
...aw some interesting developments that may not have been so obvious. Take, for example, the introduction of Toshiba 's announcement of low cost HD-DVD players and recorders. Besides the fact that HD...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 20:26
... the show is kicked off with the first major press conferences on Sunday morning (LG Electronics, Pioneer, Toshiba , Philips, Sharp, RCA, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony), we already count about 20 notewor...
Friday, January 05, 2007 05:00
...iph's Jawbone headset and Noise Shield sound too good to be true Sony shows OLED TV prototypes Toshiba offering four embedded NAND flash solutions Eat this, Quad FX: Here's an 8...
Sunday, December 31, 2006 23:00
...zations - Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, NextPage, Novell, Statoil ASA, Toshiba , and the U.S. Library of Congress - and will now be submitted to the International Or...
Friday, December 08, 2006 18:38
...es the first Cell processor that consumers actually can buy, Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" graphics engine, Toshiba 's Emotion Engine, 256 MB GDDR3 graphics memory, 256 MB XDR memory, a 60 GB hard drive...
Friday, November 17, 2006 05:30
...ed with Zune Marketplace Microsoft's Zune to hit retail on 14 November for $250 Opinion: Zune in, Zune out Toshiba to build Zune for Microsoft Apple intros sleeker and higher capacity Ipods, adds movi...
Monday, November 06, 2006 18:45
Microsoft released the final version of its proprietary antispyware application, Windows Defender. The security tool, which saw its last public beta release in February, is a free download for US cus
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 21:16
...batteries, which prompted Dell to recall a total of 4.1 million notebooks and Apple 1.8 million notebooks. Toshiba also recalled 340,000 batteries dues to a charging or discharging problem. Sony, whic...
Thursday, September 28, 2006 19:20
...sells for for $250 as well, but does not include a Wi-Fi feature. The Zune media player is manufactured by Toshiba and comes with a 30 GB hard drive and a 3"" color LCD screen that can display picture...
Thursday, September 28, 2006 15:50
...ly, Zune's features have been known for quite a while and Microsoft revealed few surprises. Zune, built by Toshiba , will be offered in three colors - white, black and perhaps not the prettiest brown. ...
Thursday, September 14, 2006 16:58
...alls "charge trap technology." Compared to the currently manufactured NAND flash - which was introduced by Toshiba in 1989 - uses a metal single-gate structure that is significantly smaller than the u...
Monday, September 11, 2006 06:19
...fer tracks to Windows Media-compliant portable players, including Creative Labs' Zen, SanDisk's Sansa, and Toshiba 's Gigabeat. All three players were featured in AOL's new advertising this morning, th...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 16:21
Comments made by an IBM engineering VP in last week's Electronic News have raised concerns about the Sony/Toshiba /IBM alliance's capability to produce Cell processors at the rate, and in the quantiti
Friday, July 14, 2006 15:45
...earing their 20th birthday: Intel was the first company to offer a (256 kb) NOR Flash module back in 1988; Toshiba is credited with inventing NAND Flash. MRAM is promised to combine the non-volatile s...
Monday, July 10, 2006 16:06
...azine said that it has verified the capability with Sony's first Blu-ray PC VGC-RC 204 von Sony as well as Toshiba 's HD DVD notebook Qosmio G30. Both devices use a first-generation HD version of Inter...
Friday, July 07, 2006 16:02
...firm plans for such a device: The technology would simply be drawn from a joint venture with HD DVD backer Toshiba . ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 16:14
Seagate is accelerating the pace towards a perpendicular-only hard drive line-up. Within the next three quarters, the company will launch ten new hard drives ranging from pocket drives to high-end en
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:30
Wildtangent announced the launch of Toshiba Games, a virtual gaming console application and an online casual game portal it developed specifically for Toshiba notebook computers. Under the partnershi
Monday, May 15, 2006 15:54
Intel uses E3 to show off its next generation gaming processor, Core 2 Extreme, and highlight its performance capability: In an interview with TG Daily, Intel claims that the CPU will be 40% faster t
Thursday, May 11, 2006 15:00
Microsoft confirmed at E3 that it will be offering an external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 gaming console in the fourth quarter of this year. Compared to Sony's Blu-ray, HD DVD will offer similar f
Monday, May 08, 2006 20:42
Toshiba today announced a new tablet PC that will be sold through retail outlets in the US. The Portege M405-S8003 will be available in only one configuration, but carries a substantially lower price
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 16:02
While the first generation of HD DVD players will output 1080i resolution - interlaced, not progressive - smarter, top-of-the-line HDTV displays produced from now on should be able to compensate for
Friday, March 24, 2006 20:16
Toshiba indicated in a recent statement that it intends to release its upcoming HD DVD players in tandem with studios' release of movies for the HD DVD format those players support. There should have
Monday, March 20, 2006 21:56
For about a year, Samsung Semiconductor and Microsoft have been leading the development of hybrid hard drives, with the potential of improving system performance by orders of magnitude. Samsung, the
Friday, March 17, 2006 22:42
Today, a representative of Warner Home Video told the Hollywood Reporter that HD DVD titles may be delayed for several weeks, prompting the removal of those titles from retailers' catalogs. Did the A
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 16:54
Earlier this week we learned that Sony will be launching its Blu-ray format at the end of May; the competing HD DVD camp today announced that it will beat that mark by about two months. There will be
Thursday, March 02, 2006 20:56
While Sony maintains its support for Blu-ray and the company cannot be expected to change its position in the foreseeable future, the company has laid the foundation to have access to the competing H
Monday, February 27, 2006 23:26
Two weeks ago, TG Daily reported that USB 2.0 devices can cause excessive power consumption in notebooks. After further extensive testing, which involved Intel and Microsoft, an ACPI driver has been
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 18:33
Toshiba and NEC today announced that they have developed a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) that combines the highest density with the fastest read and write speed yet achieved.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 14:44
Toshiba may be far from giving up its battle with Sony to establish the successor of the DVD. But just in case Blu-ray may come out on top, Toshiba has an ace in its backhand: A joint-venture t
Saturday, January 21, 2006 00:13
With 1.25 million Macintosh computers shipped in the holiday quarter, the Macintosh resurgence appears real. What distinguishes an Intel-based Mac from an Intel-based PC? Apple's senior director of d
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 22:34
While thousands stood in line to see Google president Larry Page not announce the "Google PC," we continued to find out some very interesting news last Friday, including looking into how a simple not
Sunday, January 08, 2006 21:39