Tag: Toshiba
Universal is today's Blu-ray turncoat – HD DVD getting deader by the hour
Your HD DVD player just got that little bit lonelier today, as Universal announced its dumping of exclusive HD DVD support in favour of Blu-ray.
Following HD DVD maker Toshiba’s announcement of the death of HD DVD yesterday, Universal wasted no time in jumping fully on the Blu-ray wagon from the burning wreck of the HD DVD bus…
eBay overflowing with cut-price HD DVD discs and players
Those eBay sellers are craftier than I first thought. Whilst the announcement from Toshiba that they were to cease production of HD DVD players only arrived this morning, the public has expected it since early January, when Warner battered the format into oblivion, by deciding on exclusive support of Blu-ray and finishing its contract with HD DVD.
A quick glance on eBay this morning has turned up 2,381 auctions for actual HD DVD discs, with some appallingly cheap options including a job lot of six high-profile films for £49 with 2 hours left (at HMV, this would retail for £124.92), the…
Toshiba makes formal announcement about not making a formal announcement; Microsoft's Xbox 360 + Blu-ray = May?
Things have changed in the few hours since we last wrote about the format wars! Toshiba has spoken! Open your ears and bow down to the mighty Tosh god as he delivers his sermon…
Whilst they’re not surrendering just yet, the general public is awaiting an announcement later this week about the future of their HD DVD format support.
Meanwhile, rumours about Microsoft releasing a Blu-ray…
MWC 2008: Toshiba's Portégé G810 smartphone announced
Spanning laptops and mobile phones, Toshiba is adding to their Portégé range with the G810 touchscreen handset. Yes, you’ve heard the model number ‘G810’ before – Samsung announced a handset by the same name today at MWC, and LG released the KG810 clamshell back in October of last year.
Running on Windows Mobile 6, it’s got HSDPA and HSUPA support, integral for the push email and web-browsing WM6 is renowned…
Toshiba's G450 4-in-one mobile phone / USB flash drive / MP3 player / HSDPA modem
With a bizarre keypad arrangement and small round screen, Toshiba’s G450 may be a mobile phone, but perhaps is better suited as a USB storage device, MP3 player and modem for your laptop. If you can manage to squeeze anything onto the 160MB storage, that is.
There’s no word on expandable…