Interview with Toshiba CEO

[Grubert]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Ho hum.

[Luis_A51]

Quote

"If you watch standard DVDs on our players, the images are of very high quality because they include an "upconverting" feature. And we're going to improve this even more, so that consumers won't be able to tell the difference from HD DVD images. The players would be much cheaper than Blu-ray players too. Next-generation DVD players are in a much weaker position than when standard DVD players were first introduced."

what a jackass. talk about sore loser.

[maximiza]

yeah... he is a few chop sticks short of a sushi dinner

[JasonR]

Originally Posted by Luis_A51

Quote

"If you watch standard DVDs on our players, the images are of very high quality because they include an "upconverting" feature. And we're going to improve this even more, so that consumers won't be able to tell the difference from HD DVD images. The players would be much cheaper than Blu-ray players too. Next-generation DVD players are in a much weaker position than when standard DVD players were first introduced."

what a jackass. talk about sore loser.

I wonder if he would have said that had he won the format war...

[eChopper]

"and SED is just around the corner"

what a piss poor 3rd rate company Toshiba has become

[Bango]

"If you watch standard DVDs on our players, the images are of very high quality because they include an "upconverting" feature. And we're going to improve this even more, so that consumers won't be able to tell the difference from HD DVD images"

Haha, so what was the point of getting thousands of people to buy your now paper weight if they could get "The same" images on a standard dvd player...UPCONVERT PQ FTW!

[wildkineticbubs]

Sounds like someone spilled his sippy-cup.

[Kuraudo]

^ You can never compare upscaled movies to the real deal Blu Ray.
I agree, what a sore loser.

[sphdle1]

There are some darker scenes near the beginning of the latest HP OOTP SD DVD, that were encoded so badly, that no upconverter now or in the future, could ever make it look reasonably good, let alone in the same league as high-def. Looks like someone took the original and compressed to 50% it's that bad.

High-def is the future, not the pi$$ poor immitation of high-def.

[olarmy96]

I didn't think the interview was that bad. What's he supposed to say? We have no future, we're getting out of CE completely, may I borrow your katana to fall on?

This guy helped us out in that he exited immediately once they couldn't win. He could have gone for a salt the earth strategy that could have doomed us all.

In some ways, we should thank him for quickly stepping out of the way of Blu-ray.

[MacDaddyOJack]

Toshiba thought that 30 GB was plenty and look what happened. We'll see how far these upconverting players take them this time....ha!

[DaViD Boulet]

"and SED is just around the corner"

I hope so! That's something that would benefit the HD consumer tremendously.

Blu-ray Discs would look oh-so-nice on a state-of-the-art 1080p SED display...

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Grubert

Source: Wall Street Journal

Ho hum.

More sour grapes from the LOSING side. What a bunch of @#$%.

[unreal1080p]

Originally Posted by BlueNeon

More sour grapes from the LOSING side. What a bunch of @#$%.

Yup... The moniker over the article should have said "loser talk" instead of "boss talk"

[BlurayManiac]

what a moron blu-ray vs upconvert what is this guy smoking

[blu-backer]

Originally Posted by Luis_A51

Quote

"If you watch standard DVDs on our players, the images are of very high quality because they include an "upconverting" feature. And we're going to improve this even more, so that consumers won't be able to tell the difference from HD DVD images. The players would be much cheaper than Blu-ray players too. Next-generation DVD players are in a much weaker position than when standard DVD players were first introduced."

what a jackass. talk about sore loser.

He's essentially saying to HD-DVD supporters: "Suckers! We had SD-DVD players that would show movies in the same quality as your HD-DVD movies." Of course, he's wrong, since upconverting/upscaling is NOT the same as HDM, but I agree, what a tool for saying that.

But, he's just spouting the same FUD that red ants spout. This is just now coming from the top.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Grubert

Source: Wall Street Journal

Ho hum.

Making the best of a bad situation.

Toshiba is huge as a corporation. But, their brand awareness in consumer electronics is dying off. As is their prominence in laptops.

Flash chips are a commodity business, and nobody rips open their flash drives to find the company that made the chips.

Gary

[marzetta7]

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

"and SED is just around the corner"

I hope so! That's something that would benefit the HD consumer tremendously.

Blu-ray Discs would look oh-so-nice on a state-of-the-art 1080p SED display...

SED has been shelved by Toshiba and given back to Canon the last I heard due to legality (patent) issues. However, a GREAT alternative, IMO is the LaserTV...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...entry_id=23268



http://www.i4u.com/article14083.html

http://www.uberreview.com/2008/02/65...mitsubishi.htm

[BadAss]

"If you watch standard DVDs on our players, the images are of very high quality because they include an "upconverting" feature. And we're going to improve this even more, so that consumers won't be able to tell the difference from HD DVD images. The players would be much cheaper than Blu-ray players too. Next-generation DVD players are in a much weaker position than when standard DVD players were first introduced."

Next thing you know they'll be calling DVD 'The look and sound of perfect'

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

SED has been shelved by Toshiba and given back to Canon the last I heard due to legality (patent) issues. However, a GREAT alternative, IMO is the LaserTV...

What they don't show you is the rear projection part. Laser TV isn't a flat panel technology, it is much like LCoS (or SXRD if you prefer Sony) but using lasers. It will never take off with stuff like OLED just around the corner (bigger OLED TVs are coming sooner than you all think...).