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Coursedesign wrote on 6/2/2008, 10:01 PM
Even the source article says they are "developing a player for regular every-day-DVDs that outputs a higher resolution video."

In other words: TA-DAAA! Toshiba will in the future launch an upscaling DVD player.

Who says the Emperor has no clothes?
apit34356 wrote on 6/3/2008, 4:33 AM
This is not really new, Toshiba has been claiming their "cell version" was able to produce HD type images from SD since last Fall
Radio Guy wrote on 6/3/2008, 4:57 AM
Well Toshiba did try pushing HD-DVD to the masses in the last round so I'm sure they had alternative scenarios in the wings. If they do pull this off we don't have to re-invent the wheel and maybe have a new codec to add to our existing software base to handle HDV.

IIf this story is valid then six months to release an extended player, according to the article, isn't that far down the road either.

Cheers
Laurence wrote on 6/3/2008, 5:10 AM
Toshiba selling a new format to the general public: that sounds like a hard sale. Lots of people still have the taste of Toshiba vinegar their mouths.
Laurence wrote on 6/3/2008, 5:14 AM
Maybe they're just going to use just the SD uprezzing part of their HD DVD technology in a new less expensive player.

Yeah their are a lot of uprezzing DVD players, but most of them don't look anywhere near as good as the Blu-ray or HD DVD players. There probably would be a decent market for an inexpensive uprezzing player that uprezzed as well as an HD player.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/3/2008, 9:00 AM
Our press has become even more negative and more superficial about everything over the past decade, but even allowing for that, I sure don't remember stories like those linked to below when DVD had been shipping for two years. Quite the opposite: It was all about the incredible wonderfullness of it all.

As for the Toshiba technology simply being up-resn'g, I highly doubt that is what they'd do. Instead, I expect it will be some variation on what many on this forum are already doing: Making high res discs on standard DVD blanks that will play true high-def content on some Blu-Ray players. Consumer awareness of the Blu-ray high-def disc player is rising, but only six percent say they plan to buy one.

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