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- Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balm
- Best Buy said Wednesday that it will send a $50 gift card to any poor soul that bought a HD-DVD player. The tally will run about $10 million in gift cards, says Best Buy in a statement. So if you bought an HD-DVD player before Feb. 23--the...
- Tags: Card, HD-DVD Player, Best Buy Co. Inc., HD-DVD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- %28Gallery%3A+Cracking+open+a+Toshiba+HD+DVD+player%29
- %28Gallery%3A+Cracking+open+a+Toshiba+HD+DVD+player%29Might as well crack 'em all open at this point......and salvage whatever you can of the money wasted on it.RE: (Gallery: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player)May not be all that bad. I still have my laserdisk player and still watch movies. Of course, I have a bigger selection..RE:...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD player, HD-DVD, Toshiba HD-DVD player, Toshiba HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Cracking Open, Gallery, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Ding, dong, HD DVD is dead
- Wow, that didn't take long. In just over six weeks HD DVD went from underdog to dead dog, with Toshiba making it official today - it will no longer "develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." The announcement means that Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, Player, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player
- Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD playerWe didn't settle on anything.The superior and more popular format won out.So wait...We just settled on a standard that was not finished?Rushed to market to compete with Microsoft?Oh the frustrations.That was a poignant funeral oration, George nt.We didn't settle on anything. Sony...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Toshiba HD-A30 HD-DVD player, Toshiba HD-A30, Cracking Open, HD-DVD player, Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Gallery: Cracking open a Toshiba HD DVD player
- Since the Toshiba HD-A30 is the pinnacle of HD DVD set-top boxes and might be the last production HD DVD drive ever, I thought I’d crack it open and take a look inside. by George Ou
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Image galleries 2008-02-19
- Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player
- Updated 3:00AM - By now the news is out that the end of HD DVD might be near since Toshiba is considering its options that may include the possibility of stopped production on HD DVD products is confirmed dead. There are more than a million HD DVD owners, two exclusive HD...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, HD-DVD, Consensus, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba HD-A30, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- $99 Toshiba HD DVD player on Friday at Wal-Mart?
- $99 Toshiba HD DVD player on Friday at Wal-Mart?Quite a few other places are reporting thisntri-wallmart.com fake?From WalMart's security page:Determine Whether Someone Is Spoofing the Walmart.com SiteSome things to look for:* Make certain ".walmart.com" is immediately before the first "/". There must be a "." before "walmart.com" for the address...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, HD-DVD player, HD-DVD, Shipping, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- $99 Toshiba HD DVD player on Friday at Wal-Mart?
- Ok this is just absolutely nuts. $99 for a Toshiba HD DVD player and $348 for a 1GB Acer Laptop supposedly this Friday at Wal-Mart and it isn't even Black Friday yet. This is being advertised as the "Secret in-store specials" ri-walmart.com site which I'm not 100% sure is Wal-Mart...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Hd Dvd, Notebooks, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- HD DVD price war begins at $198, $170 on Black Friday
- The high definition format wars are in full swing and they're about to heat up even more with HD DVD prices dropping below the $200 mark. HD DVD took an early lead only to lose the lead to Blu-ray because of Sony's PlayStation 3 with built-in Blu-ray capability. With Blockbuster...
- Tags: HD-DVD Player, HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Blu-ray vs HD-DVD: Bonus play!
- Blu-ray vs HD-DVD: Bonus play!More content per disk...Does anyone watch the extras that come with a movie now?I don't.Interviews, sometimes with people who appear to have forgotten the movie. As with Strangers on a Train, an inferior cut of the movie. Scenes the Director didn't insert when he...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, Blue-ray, Sony Corp., disc, HD-DVD player
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Toshiba HD-A20 - HD DVD player
- Toshiba has already announced its third-generation HD DVD players, but so far we're a little skeptical about the real-world benefits of the promised upgrades. This means Toshiba's current line of HD DVD players could become a smart value buy over the next few months, as retailers look to sell old...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Toshiba Corp., HD-DVD player, Toshiba HD-A20, HD-DVD, HD-A2
- Product reviews 2007-08-08
- Toshiba drops sales target for HD DVD players
- Toshiba drops sales target for HD DVD playersWhy botherI have a DVD player already. I have nothing that is HD compliant. And even if I did, the HD and BlueRay standards are what is used as master images for 90 foot theater screens. My screen is significantly...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Media players, Sales strategy, Toshiba Corp., sales target, HD-DVD player, HD-DVD, sales, standardization
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
- Toshiba HD-XA2
- When the first HD DVD player, Toshiba's HD-A1, came out last April, the general consensus was it put out excellent-quality images but was crippled by some major operational quirks. Although Toshiba improved the performance of the HD-A1 significantly with a few firmware updates, many prospective buyers were still holding out...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Toshiba HD-XA2, Toshiba Corp., XA2, HD-DVD, Toshiba HD-A1, HD-DVD player
- Product reviews 2007-04-10
- LG to sell first Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player
- LG to sell first Blu-ray/HD DVD combo playerblue ray / hd dvd playerit's not the fact that the players only play their dvd's but all the people that i have talked to says that it shows a good picture but the price is too hight especially when someone has a...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, HD-DVD player, interactive feature, Microsoft Corp., LG Electronics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-07
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player and a PC adorned with a fighting robot.
- Tags: HD-DVD player, PC, robot, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360
- Image galleries 2006-12-09
- Microsoft Xbox 360 HD-DVD player
- While the Sony PlayStation 3 may have an integrated Blu-ray player, Microsoft is doing its best to blunt that possible competitive advantage with a next-generation DVD player of its own for the Xbox 360. Dubbed simply Xbox 360 HD DVD player, the fairly basic external drive connects to the...
- Tags: HD DVD, Game players, DVD, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, HD-DVD, Xbox 360, HD-DVD player, DVD player
- Product reviews 2006-12-06
- New HP laptop with HD-DVD player
- Notebook aims to replace desktopHome users who want their laptop to double as a home entertainment center will love the high-end (and high-def) features on the HP Pavilion dv9000t.
- Tags: HD DVD, Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co., HD-DVD player, HD-DVD
- Videos 2006-10-06
- Photos: Toshiba's slimmer HD DVD players
- Toshiba's second generation of HD DVD players will feature a trimmer look and new remote-control features.
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD player, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp.
- Image galleries 2006-09-18
- Is Toshiba's HD DVD being reckless with power consumption?
- This story from Tomshardware reports that Toshiba's new HD DVD player uses an old energy-guzzling Pentium 4m CPU instead of a low power Pentium M chip. The Pentium 4m can waste an additional 60 watts of power while operating and that can add up to some serious electric bills...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Pentium 4M, Intel Pentium, new HD-DVD player
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- America meets its first HD DVD player
- Toshiba delivers high-end deviceToshiba's HD DVD-XA1 is available before any HD movies go on sale, with Sony's competing Blu-ray players due later this spring. CNET News.com's Vincent Tremblay takes a look at Toshiba's first entry into the HD competition.
- Tags: Toshiba Corp.
- Videos 2006-04-13
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