Toshiba: 'we'll beat Sony with Cell'
Toshiba is confident that it will beat Sony to market with consumer electronics devices packing the powerful Cell microprocessor, the head of its consumer electronics business said Thursday.
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Three-layer DVD, HD DVD disc developed
Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a three-layer optical disc that can be read by both DVD and HD DVD players.
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HD DVD to hit Europe in November
The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc for the hearts, minds and wallets of European consumers will start in November when Toshiba puts on sale its first HD DVD players in Europe.
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Qosmio G30-163 review
Toshiba’s latest laptop is the first to pack an HD DVD drive. However, the Qosmio G30-163 is more than just an expensive toy for cash-flashing consumers.
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Toshiba picks HD-DVD for laptop
Movie fans can watch high-definition video on their laptops using the Qosmio G35-AV650 computer launched Tuesday by Toshiba.
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Review: Toshiba HD-XA1 HD-DVD player
Over the last week I've had a chance to use the HD-XA1 at home and while the choice of movies is still limited, the few available have given me a taste of how the player shapes up.
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HD-DVD laptop to arrive in May
Toshiba plans to put on sale its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drivein Japan in May. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive.
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Toshiba shows HDD-based video camera
Toshiba has developed a digital video camera based on its miniature hard-disk drive and is showing it for the first time at the Ceatec Japan 2005 show currently taking place in Japan.
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Toshiba to show prototype HD-DVD player
Toshiba will show off a prototype of its soon-to-launch HD-DVD player at the Ceatec show in Japan this week, the company said Monday.
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Toshiba to show laptop with HD-DVD drive
Toshiba plans to show its first notebook computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive at the Ceatec Japan 2005 exhibition next month, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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IBM, Toshiba present Cell chip details
At the Hot Chips conference Monday, chip designers from IBM and Toshiba revealed a few more details about the Cell processor, such as the structure of its internal and external connections as well as a co-processor designed to improve video performance.
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Toshiba's new CEO wants HD disc talks
Toshiba's new president and CEO, Atsutoshi Nishida, said Monday that his company is still interested in sitting down with competitors to talk about a unified format for high-definition video discs.
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Toshiba develops detachable display
Toshiba has developed a detachable display that the company says will combine the convenience of a Tablet PC with the computing power of a notebook PC, and that could be available in about three years, it said at Cebit on Thursday.
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Memory-Tech creates DVD/HD-DVD hybrid
Memory-Tech will start mass production late next year of read-only discs that can contain data stored in both DVD and HD-DVDs layers.
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NEC, Toshiba add HD-DVD to PCs in 2005
NEC plans to start selling desktop PCs equipped with HD-DVD drives at the end of 2005, the company announced. Slimmed-down versions of the drives will be added to laptops in 2006
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Toshiba intros multimedia laptops
Toshiba has launched a new range of notebook personal computers that come optimized for audio and video functions and will be made available worldwide.
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Toshiba intros hdd-DVD recorder in EU
With sales of its combination hard disk and DVD video recorders growing fast at home, Toshiba is kicking off a string of international launches aimed at securing a 20 per cent share of the worldwide market for such devices.
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Toshiba shows 100GB notebook drive
Toshiba has developed a hard disk drive for notebook computers that can hold 100GB of data. The company expects to begin selling it later this year, it said Thursday.
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Toshiba, Sandisk boost flash memory
Toshiba and SanDisk have jointly developed a flash memory chip capable of storing twice as much data as their current largest-capacity flash memory, they announced.
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Toshiba updates multimedia laptops
Toshiba has un-wrapped two new notebooks, addressing important segments of the notebook market with a Media Center desktop replacement notebook and a more portable system based on Intel's Centrino technology.