this is unthinkable. impossible. it's not going to beat blu-ray. the thing is, when you expand an image, it is impossible to fill the images with non-existent pixels. when you expand an image, pixels are given the colors between the original pictures, and is used as a "filler". but all this does is blur the image. toshiba must have some black magic up its ass.
Enhancing a old format is like adding poiish on old tech, its still gonna be old tech. but we'll see what happens
lol whoever is heading Toshiba at the moment needs to swallow his pride and just hop on the bluray bandwagon. If i were a toshiba stock holder id be extremely nervous after an announcement like this
Never give up do they? It's really bad to produce something that is old tech, they must really hate sony or something
well it depends if this format can play in our current dvd players then it prob won't be much different but from what i can gather this plays in their new players which is backward compatible with dvds. wat makes this that much different from hd-dvd. seems like it is a hd-dvd player which is cheaper than blu-ray which has compatibility with dvds which the blu-ray player has already. lol.
wow.... no idea how this will turn out.... if somehow they really do make this work..... this could drop the sales price of blu-ray significantly =\
i think toshiba needs to accept the fact that they lost to Sony and try to work with sony to lower the price of blu-ray and increase adoption of it. maybe they are trying to get regular dvd players to play the mkv codec or something, but why waste the money with the older tech...
oh perhaps, maybe they should work with sony then and allow their new players to play that format also lol or just make all new dvd players have that feature like with dvd players which can play divx. wouldn't be such a bad idea then as long as dvd player remains at same cost.
Xbox360 or ps3 can already do that. no point unless the new player is at the $100 mark and way more energy efficient. and about the so called better dvd format, really no point "DVD" are last-gen....outdated.
eh... dont know what their trying to pull.. i mean if its really cheap then maybe but blu-ray will still probably be better
actually, Toshiba has it right!!! according to year-2007 DVD sales figures, DVDs are out-selling the Blue-ray by 10,000 to 1 on most movies( the manufactorers are covering this fact up, instead telling people that Blue-ray players are outselling DVD players....remember, players...not media!). also the technology that Toshiba proposing is already in use on the Internet, which is H.264 (MPEG-4). First of all, Toshiba is talking about fitting 8 hours of video+sound in one DVD disc, using MP4-compression. It would be like the good old DVD is a 15GB disc. I already own a DV-camcorder that can do it( HD-REC, AVC-REC)! so its not new tech. Second, due "video on demand" on the Internet growing faster than expected; blueray videos are being sidelined. Third, a new video/audio recording format/media is coming less than 5 years' time. it will be know as holographic storage media. so Toshiba abandoned the competition, early to save itself from making the biggest mistake since Sony' BETA-tape....smart move indeed!
no matter what toshiba tries to do now....it's highly unlikely that they can beat blue-ray considering most or all the major studios have decided to use blue-ray technology
Well.. Many manufacturer and studios already chose to side with Blu-Ray... DVD is not gonna win in anyway unless they manage to attract manufacturers and studios to side with them...
WYH-O-WHY, for crying out loud do you people or other dont get it___IT AINT the Movie studios or the Manufacturers who dictates what format or media wins.....it is the CONSUMER. and they already chose DVD not Blue-ray.....
you come to a space conundrum with the DVD's what happens when you can't cram any more stuff into the 8GB of disc space on a dvd? You have to upgrade the laser and the media, then once again dvd's become absolete. what toshiba is doing is trying to buy as much time as they can with the current format and try to patch the big whole that they are in with the HD-DVD battle
