Since Toshiba was one of the key developers of DVD, I think it is rather one-eyed to think that they would not be able to engineer a good product. As for HD-DVD, I think that it was Tosh's marketing department that failed, rather than R&D.
That being said, I have absolutely no idea if this particular product is any good, but knocking it down on the basis of HD-DVD is just prejudice IMO.
“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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Since Toshiba was one of the key developers of DVD, I think it is rather one-eyed to think that they would not be able to engineer a good product. As for HD-DVD, I think that it was Tosh's marketing department that failed, rather than R&D.
That being said, I have absolutely no idea if this particular product is any good, but knocking it down on the basis of HD-DVD is just prejudice IMO.