toshiba

Gadget-makers scolded in Greenpeace report

Crave Toshiba jumped to third for phasing out dodgy chemicals and reporting its use of renewable energy, while most of the major PC makers -- including Dell and Acer -- were down. Greenpeace has ticked off the major electronics firms for failing to take...

Tags: guide, dell, electronics, energy

25 November 2008, 10:11

Toshiba Regza 42ZV555D: 'World's first' upscaling TV

Crave That's right, you read the headline correctly: Toshiba just claimed to have created the first upscaling TVs, the Regza 42ZV555D and 46ZV555D LCDs. The magical widget that handles the upscaling in this TV is based on the Cell processor, which...

Tags: toshiba, cell, processor, definition

11 November 2008, 11:59

Toshiba XD-E500: Now with free Lovefilm subscription

Crave Although we applaud Toshiba's efforts to improve the quality of DVDs with its upscaling players, we couldn't help but think the XD-E500, which we reviewed in September, was a little too expensive at £120 and didn't do enough with the picture...

Tags: toshiba, dvds, movies, post office

10 November 2008, 11:22

Toshiba Qosmio X305: Triple threat graphics

Crave But Toshiba has announced two new versions of its Qosmio X305 gaming laptop that incorporate three GPUs: two Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS cards in a scalable link interface and one integrated GeForce 9400M.

Tags: core, graphics, laptops, hard drive

7 November 2008, 10:32

Sony battery recall affects HP, Toshiba, Dell laptops

Crave According to the CPSC, 32,000 HP notebooks, 3,000 Toshiba notebooks and 150 Dell notebooks are said to be affected. HP, Toshiba and Dell have each set up their own websites where customers can fill out a form and receive a replacement battery pack...

Tags: battery, dell, problems, batteries

31 October 2008, 9:30

Photos: Asus Eee PC S101 hands-on

Crave Asus is pitching the Eee PC S101 at those who want a less toy-like netbook, or anyone who doesn't want expensive alternatives such as the Sony Vaio TT, Toshiba Portege R500, Panasonic R7, or even Asus' own S and U series.

15 October 2008, 11:13

Photos: Cracking open the fourth-gen iPod nano

Crave The big Toshiba chip is the 8GB of storage the iPod nano supplies. Sometimes they even get it to work again afterwards. But cracking open iPods is not for the faint of heart. They'd already lost one Apple iPod nano to the Cracking Open process.

13 October 2008, 10:52

Toshiba NB110: NB stands for netbook

Crave Toshiba has scrambled after Samsung and hopped on to the creaking netbook bandwagon, announcing the NB110 at the Ceatec trade show in Japan. Toshiba is actually one of the pioneers in mini-laptops, with the Libretto first coming out in 2001, and...

Tags: japan, mini, eee pc, ram

2 October 2008, 10:46

Panasonic doubts future of OLED TVs

Crave Here at Ceatec, for example, several major TV makers like Sharp, Toshiba, Sony and Panasonic are showing off incredibly thin TVs as well as those with decreased power consumption, both features of OLED.

Tags: panasonic, market, tvs, lcd

30 September 2008, 8:50

Photos: Hands-on with the new Apple iPod classic

Crave Most annoying though, is that Toshiba this week announced 240GB 1.8-inch hard disks -- the very same size that would have fit in the 160GB iPod classic chassis -- but Apple chose to dismiss the idea of an amazing 240GB iPod.

10 September 2008, 9:55

Toshiba Regza 40ZF575D: Improving bog-standard video

Crave Toshiba began its press conference at IFA in Berlin by denying that it would be announcing a Blu-ray player -- this didn't come as much of a surprise, as the company is still hurting from a very expensive loss in the great format war of 2007.

Tags: tvs, definition, ray, blu

28 August 2008, 15:46

Profigold PROV1015: Long-distance 1080p with 15m HDMI cable

Crave We tested the cable by plugging it into our TV in the testing room and the other end into a Toshiba HD-EP35, which is just slightly less than 15m away on our desk. Yesterday a package arrived here at Crave that weighed as much as a fairly hefty...

Tags: cable, hd, hdmi, puppy

15 August 2008, 11:41

Toshiba Camileo H10: HD that isn't hard on your wallet

Crave Toshiba has announced the latest in its wallet-friendly Camileo camcorder line with the Camileo H10. Toshiba claims this will give you up to 4 hours of broadcast-quality film. The Toshiba Camileo H10 drops at the end of this month, with a price...

Tags: toshiba, cards, sdhc, camileo

29 July 2008, 9:36

Toshiba tries Centrino 2: Tecra M10, A10 and Satellite Pro S300

Crave On Monday, Toshiba celebrated the release of Centrino 2 by announcing three new business laptops built on the new platform: the Tecra M10, Tecra A10 and Satellite Pro S300. GB solid-state drive, and they incorporate Toshiba's EasyGuard technologies...

Tags: usb, toshiba, technologies, port

15 July 2008, 11:56

Centrino 2: What's in the Intel sequel?

Crave The 'SPxxxx', 'SLxxxx', 'SUxxxx', and 'Uxxxx' are part of the 'performance small form factor' group, and will fit into slim and light machines such as the MacBook Air, Lenovo X300 and Toshiba R500. But don't worry.

15 July 2008, 9:30