............"Toshiba didn't demonstrate the XDE against a Blu-ray or HD DVD player, and Louis Masses, director of product planning for the audio and video group at Toshiba America Consumer Products, was careful to stress that it's not meant to compete with or replace Blu-ray.
"If you want Blu-ray, go get Blu-ray. This product is meant to improve playback of DVDs," Masses said.".........
Pushing out a $150 DVD player in a crowded market full of cheaper models doesn't make any sense. It's also notable that Toshiba controlled the demo, choosing the demo material and the player to compare it against. I wonder what real world results will be like.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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............"Toshiba didn't demonstrate the XDE against a Blu-ray or HD DVD player, and Louis Masses, director of product planning for the audio and video group at Toshiba America Consumer Products, was careful to stress that it's not meant to compete with or replace Blu-ray.
"If you want Blu-ray, go get Blu-ray. This product is meant to improve playback of DVDs," Masses said.".........
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Lets not let the facts get in the way of a good story eh?
Pushing out a $150 DVD player in a crowded market full of cheaper models doesn't make any sense. It's also notable that Toshiba controlled the demo, choosing the demo material and the player to compare it against. I wonder what real world results will be like.