Toshiba begging not to make a Blu-ray player these days. It is something to see a company try so hard to save face after they so publicly last year lost it. I love it if they can't when the HD format war then there is no reason to have an HD format because SD DVD is just fine. LOL
They lost $1B on HD DVD, they're not in a particularly good place financially, and Blu-ray is both a competitive market and one that is still trying to prove any long term viability.
It would be insanity for Toshiba to make a Blu-ray player. That's why they're not doing it.
Look, there would be plenty of "face saving" ways to enter the market if they thought it made sense. Something as simple as a combo player, for example. But it's just not an area they believe they can make money from. And, outside of the Blutard group, I don't think anyone can honestly disagree with their assessment.
“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 begging not to make a Blu-ray player these days. It is something to see a company try so hard to save face after they so publicly last year lost it. I love it if they can't when the HD format war then there is no reason to have an HD format because SD DVD is just fine. LOL
They lost $1B on HD DVD, they're not in a particularly good place financially, and Blu-ray is both a competitive market and one that is still trying to prove any long term viability.
It would be insanity for Toshiba to make a Blu-ray player. That's why they're not doing it.
Look, there would be plenty of "face saving" ways to enter the market if they thought it made sense. Something as simple as a combo player, for example. But it's just not an area they believe they can make money from. And, outside of the Blutard group, I don't think anyone can honestly disagree with their assessment.