Aside from the new JournE touch, the other main thrust at IFA's booth is Blu-ray -- at least, one would think. In reality, when we finally found the lone BDX2000, the LCD it was plugged into was
off, while numerous DVD players and upscaling tech demos littered the surrounding booth area. Once we got a rep to turn it on for us, the Blu-ray player seemed to work just fine, as should be expected. The new Blu-ray equipped P500, however, wasn't so successful: our colleagues at
Engadget Spanish watched an
attempted Blu-ray showing on the laptop go awry, and by the time we'd dropped by the booth, any Blu-ray models of the P500 had been pulled from the show floor due to crashiness. In talking with a Toshiba rep, it's clear that the company hasn't abandoned its ideas of internet distribution and other alternatives to the once rival format of Blu-ray. The company is looking into a solution that uses a Blu-ray disc and BD Live to stream internet media to the player, and has packed in decent codec support for playing back media off of the BDX2000's SD card reader. We're sure Toshiba will figure out its P500 woes before the laptop ships to consumers, but there's no lack of
interestingness in these first displays of Toshiba's "commitment" to the Blu-ray format.
posted September 4th 2009 2:07PM
Toshiba is more than welcome to the Blu-Ray camp.
And they're right, too. I for one don't missing having to fish out a disc every time I want to watch one of my movies.
I know, right? Who wants to have to walk across their room to get a movie? I mean, that could be like 10 feet! That's WAY too much effort.
And your harddrive crashes and now you don't have any of the movies you downloaded. Sure you may say "but I have a backup", but I can bet that a majority of computer users do not have offline or secondary harddrives to backup their data onto.
Digital Distribution is great as long as the service stays around for years and allows re-downloading movies if you have a harddrive crash (or something equally bad). But I still prefer my physical media when it comes to movies.
*hugs HD-DVD collection* LET IT GO, ENGADGET
That guy looks either extremely high or extremely tired. I'm going with the ladder!
Toshiba will follow the crowd soon or later.
yea im going up the ladder too.
cool ladder, bro
We all believe in hi-def digital distribution. But in reality the infrastructure's just not there yet in a global market. Shipping discs in this instance ensures maximum penetration and profit at minimal cost. To us. And them. This made nothing but sense. Thanks Tosh for not giving us another standard fracturing HD-ache by arrogantly backing a superfluous third platform.
How about adding a H.264 decoder to that list of supported codecs? That's sticking it to Sony.
That guy seems like a nice guy - a nice face at the very least.
Wait - his outfit's kind of corny. But then it's kind of ballsy for him to choose to wear that so - I don't know if that's a +1 or -1
That guy looks a little baked. "wanna get high???. No I don't you stupid towel!!!!"
He reminds me of one of the characters from Madmen, or the former Don Draper's Boss.
I've entered this in the running for "subtlest, yet most humorous photochop" of 2009
only issue with bluray is the price of films. seriously they gotta stop charging the premium over dvd....17-25~ dollars for blurays when dvds go from 7-12 dollars is just a deal breaker. doesn't matter how cheap your player is when your do that.
That guy looks A LOT like one of the two guys from the Yes Men documentaries. Does anyone else think this?