toshiba

News.blog: Blu-ray player sales droop

News Toshiba stopped production of HD DVD units in February, and the format's promotional group disbanded in March. Looks like it wasn't the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from high-definition video players after all.

Tags: cent, sales, consumers, ray

1 May 2008, 9:33

News.blog: OLED panels promised for 2009

News A year ago Toshiba also said it's planning on investing in OLED panels. Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and finally brought it to the US this year.

Tags: samsung, inch, market, lcd

23 April 2008, 9:12

Microsoft fares poorly in Greenpeace guide

News Samsung and Toshiba came out joint top of the league table. Both Samsung and Toshiba did well at beginning to curb the use in their devices of PVC and brominated flame retardants, which make it almost impossible to recycle components, said

Tags: guide, products, cent, toshiba

19 March 2008, 9:17

News.blog: Microsoft denies 360 Blu-ray talk

News Elsewhere, reports indicate that Toshiba will likely take a nearly $1bn loss this year, stemming from its decision to abandon the HD DVD format. Microsoft has denied that it plans to integrate Blu-ray high-definition DVD drives into its Xbox 360...

Tags: hd, sony, ray, xbox

14 March 2008, 9:19

Greenpeace criticises wasteful IT industry

News When we surveyed the energy aspect, only one company, Toshiba, was able to provide data about the lifecycle energy consumption for their [laptop] product," said Alhajj. Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has criticised IT manufacturers for...

Tags: companies, components, technologies, products

6 March 2008, 9:18

Company trials films on flash

News Toshiba is fabricating the chips that make up the high-speed interface. Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: four years ago, he set out to his local DVD store to rent a movie. First, he stopped at the cashpoint to get some money.

Tags: bandwidth, stores, hard drive, titles

4 March 2008, 9:07

News.blog: Microsoft abandons HD DVD drive

News Along with Toshiba, Intel and NEC, Toshiba said last week it would no longer make HD DVD players. Microsoft will end production of the external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 videogame console, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Tags: disc, definition, hd, playback

25 February 2008, 8:46

Sony shares surge after HD DVD's demise

News Sony's shares gained nearly five per cent yesterday on news that Toshiba will be bowing out of the high-definition format war, reports Reuters. The announcement that it will cease production of HD DVD players before the end of April leaves Blu-ray...

Tags: ray, sales, war, blu

21 February 2008, 9:19

Wii, Xbox 360 shortages intentional, say analysts

News However, if such a project were ever in development, it seems unlikely to see the light of day, at least in its rumored form; a recent string of HD DVD setbacks has the format's primary backer Toshiba reportedly on the verge of abandoning it...

Tags: demand, hardware, sales, wi fi

18 February 2008, 8:29

Microsoft drops 360 HD DVD price

News Despite Toshiba's deep discounting of HD DVD players and a heavily promoted, unevenly fulfilled 5-free-HD DVD promotion, the biggest distributor of home video in the US had signed on to support the Sony-backed format.

Tags: hd, sales, xbox, consumer

7 February 2008, 9:13

News.blog: Hitatchi to start new storage company?

News We haven't able to confirm this, but we've heard it now from a couple of people: Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems.

14 January 2008, 9:10

Universal to end HD DVD exclusivity

News Variety reports that Universal Studios has ended its HD DVD exclusivity deal, though it will continue to only support the format until its current arrangement with Toshiba ends 31 May. Last week, Warner Bros shook up the next-gen format war with a...

Tags: universal, playback, hd, toshiba

11 January 2008, 9:57

Report: Paramount to back Blu-ray?

News Toshiba spokesperson Keisuke Ohmori called the report "speculative", while Sony declined to comment. The rumours had an immediate effect on the stock market -- Toshiba's stock fell 0.1 per cent to close at ¥782 (£4), though during the day the...

Tags: ray, cent, sony, stock

9 January 2008, 11:37

Sony CEO calls format war stalemate

News HD DVD is backed by Microsoft and Toshiba; Blu-ray by Howard Stringer, Sony Corporation of America's CEO, told the AP news agency that he believes HD DVD and Blu-ray are now at a stalemate. It's been a difficult fight.

Tags: ray, matter, hd, blu

12 November 2007, 9:16

News.blog: Panasonic exec calls Blu-ray Christmas win

News Microsoft, Toshiba and Intel are the main backers of HD DVD. CHIBA, Japan--The decisive battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD is at hand, says a prominent Panasonic exec.Blu-ray manufacturers are going to start cutting prices and go out on a...

Tags: money, disc, christmas, ray

3 October 2007, 10:19