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First "Darren Murph" criticizes Sony. Then he posts an article about a Toshiba DVD player - and not just any Toshiba DVD player, but the infamous upscaling one - without making any obvious cracks (slight sarcasm in "makes vanilla DVDs look better than the director ever intended" aside.)

What have you done with the real Darren Murph?]]>Nov 21st 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Yet again he has managed to 'sink the slipper', this time it's got a little sugar on top is all.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 21st 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 21st 2008 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 22nd 2008 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 21st 2008 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/
How dare Toshiba stand against THE AVALANCHE THAT IS BLU-RAY!?!?!?

Please... Toshiba isn't losing out on anything by refusing to go to the Blu-ray 'party' at this stage. They may release a player at some point, but I doubt it will be until Blu-ray has solidified itself in the market and all of the heavy lifting has been done by other companies.

And if that never happens, which there is a decent chance of, Toshiba gets to revel in the fact that they peed in Sony's coffee by contributing to Blu-rays stagnation; first with HD DVD, and then by not lending their support to the format after the war.]]>Nov 21st 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/
I'll never understand what the obsession is that Blutards have with Toshiba Blu-ray players. None of you would ever buy one anyway.]]>Nov 21st 2008 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/
I think DVD right now can be a sound investment and there is always room for improvement. No one seems to be making quality DVD players anymore and while these might slightly geared towards a niche market themselves, there is a much larger pool of people and movies to help push sales.]]>Nov 21st 2008 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/In the mean time, they sit back and enjoy the royalties from the DVD compatible blu ray players and the DVDs the blu ray crowd are still buying as well, that would certainly be more profitable then trying to compete for 2.5% of the BR market, sony has got the rest.

This war isn't over, blu ray won the first skirmish is all.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 22nd 2008 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 22nd 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 22nd 2008 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/toshibas-xd-e500-upscaling-dvd-player-lands-in-singapore/Nov 22nd 2008 10:40AM