DVRs, Toshiba launches three DVRs with XDE upscaling
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 18th 2008 6:44PM
posted Sep 18th 2008 6:44PM
[Via Electronista]
DVRs, posted Sep 18th 2008 6:44PM
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God damn it that's an ugly looking unit!
Toshiba need do nothing but watch and wait, IF BR ever becomes main stream they can join the BD market then, in the mean time, as of today, BR IS a niche market product, and with sony hell bent on keeping prices high, it's not worth fighting over.
IMO, short term anyway, there is certainly more money (for them) to be made out of DVD than BR -You know it & I know it!
Hahah, this thing is so dusty i would never even consider it!
I'm sticking with DVD and considering purchasing one of the XDE players. I am not jumping on the BD bandwagon because I don't think it's going to make it long term. To be honest I'm not at all upset with my upconverting players I have now. Certainly not dissatisfied enough to fork out the major investment to go BD for what little difference I've seen in stores. Five minutes into a movie it's the last thing on my mind. Toshiba is awake in my opinion. It's Sony that needs to wake up and release control of the BD market and pricing to allow the format to succeed.
Toshiba should just start selling Tube TV's & VCR's again......... and forget ever having any high end customers again. Other than my kid's cartoons, we don't watch SD video
You can't polish a turd.......
I was a long time HD DVD supporter. I even have a Samsung BD-UP5000 combo player to play all of my HD DVDs along with my new BDs. Still, I think Toshiba is being pretty fucking stupid. They need to get over the fact that they lost and start developing a BD player like everyone else. Either that or be left in the dust.
They need to make some money, rather than invest in making players for a format whose future is increasingly iffy. Toshiba lost $1B on HD DVD. All of those arguing they should immediately start making BD players are arguing they should continue to hemourage cash just so that they don't get criticized by Blu-ray fans.
There's no reason for Toshiba to enter the Blu-ray market now. IF (and with the economy tanking and Blu-ray being of questionable long-term viability even if it wasn't, it seems exceedingly unlikely) Blu-ray actually becomes a popular format, Toshiba can enter the market then. THEY LOSE NOTHING IN WAITING.
Well, lots of different opinions posted here. I tend to think that I think it's great Toshiba is moving forward with better upscaling, we all have alot of dvd's in our collections. I also think that ignoring blu-ray is NOT a good move just because they lost the format war, and I agree that consumers want high def source material now more than ever.
Personally, I want to see one of these players, if it makes my dvd's look better than my upscaling player, great I'd buy one because it will be some time before all of the movies (especially the classics) that I own will come to blu-ray. But it will be NO replacement for watching my high def blu-rays. And then there is the new, fantastic, just-like-the-studio-master lossless audio that Toshiba can do nothing about. 300-4000 kbps Dolby Digital sounds like garbage compared to a DTS Master or Dolby True track! A Good example is How the West was Won. I had the chance to hear the new dvd and bought the blu-ray...there is NO comparison.
OOPS-in my above writing I meant 300-400 kbps not 300-4000.
I dunno, do they have ATSC and clear QAM tuners?
This is a DVR, not a DVD or Blu-ray player. TiVo units don't have video inputs, there could actually be a market for the device but as the author mentioned there should be cable card too.