You're making up justifications that have no bearing whatsoever on why Toshiba is avoiding Blu-ray.
Yes, Toshiba believes the future is online content. That's why HD DVD incorporated online content. It was always intended to be an integral part of a system that eventually would drop hard media in favour of online distribution. So damn straight they're supporting various efforts to create online distribution systems, because they believe that's the future.
But you're taking that further than is legitimate. Toshiba is avoiding Blu-ray and investing in online systems because it sees BD as inevitably failing and online systems as likely to succeed. If Toshiba saw an opportunity to make money from Blu-ray, online or not, it'd do so.
This is not a matter of Toshiba wanting Blu-ray to fail. It's a matter of Toshiba saying "This is where we see the world heading" and then noting Blu-ray is not there and not capable of going there.
Your third point demonstrates how you're trying desperately to come up with justifications for the "Toshiba is trying to fight Blu-ray" meme. If you look at it, it completely contradicts your first two points. Toshiba is going online. It's not seeing hard media as having any future. Therefore it's safe to say Toshiba doesn't give a crap whether Blu-ray succeeds as a rival to DVD in that it sees DVD as likely to disappear anyway.
DVD is dying. Toshiba isn't trying to prop it up. Their entire focus is on what replaces it.
I'm neither going to acknowledge nor deny Toshiba's promotion of upscaling technology, given I've never really seen an ad for Toshiba or anyone else's upscaling technology outside of their own websites. What I will point out is this:
First, it's utterly irrelevant. Upscaling is a useful feature, and any manufacturer worth their salt is trying to create good upscalers. Second, Toshiba was making quality upscalers back when they were still supporting HD DVD.
I guess Toshiba wanted HD DVD to fail too. Right?
Toshiba doesn't think Blu-ray's going to succeed. It's fairly obvious why they think that, you only have to read the HD DVD spec to get some idea of where the DVD Forum felt movie distribution was going, and Toshiba - as a major member of the DVD Forum - seems to be continuing to go in that direction. If Toshiba were to produce Blu-ray players, they'd be making a completely illogical leap into a technology of a type they said was dying.
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squiggleslash @ Dec 3rd 2008 2:08PM
You're making up justifications that have no bearing whatsoever on why Toshiba is avoiding Blu-ray.
Yes, Toshiba believes the future is online content. That's why HD DVD incorporated online content. It was always intended to be an integral part of a system that eventually would drop hard media in favour of online distribution. So damn straight they're supporting various efforts to create online distribution systems, because they believe that's the future.
But you're taking that further than is legitimate. Toshiba is avoiding Blu-ray and investing in online systems because it sees BD as inevitably failing and online systems as likely to succeed. If Toshiba saw an opportunity to make money from Blu-ray, online or not, it'd do so.
This is not a matter of Toshiba wanting Blu-ray to fail. It's a matter of Toshiba saying "This is where we see the world heading" and then noting Blu-ray is not there and not capable of going there.
Your third point demonstrates how you're trying desperately to come up with justifications for the "Toshiba is trying to fight Blu-ray" meme. If you look at it, it completely contradicts your first two points. Toshiba is going online. It's not seeing hard media as having any future. Therefore it's safe to say Toshiba doesn't give a crap whether Blu-ray succeeds as a rival to DVD in that it sees DVD as likely to disappear anyway.
DVD is dying. Toshiba isn't trying to prop it up. Their entire focus is on what replaces it.
I'm neither going to acknowledge nor deny Toshiba's promotion of upscaling technology, given I've never really seen an ad for Toshiba or anyone else's upscaling technology outside of their own websites. What I will point out is this:
First, it's utterly irrelevant. Upscaling is a useful feature, and any manufacturer worth their salt is trying to create good upscalers.
Second, Toshiba was making quality upscalers back when they were still supporting HD DVD.
I guess Toshiba wanted HD DVD to fail too. Right?
Toshiba doesn't think Blu-ray's going to succeed. It's fairly obvious why they think that, you only have to read the HD DVD spec to get some idea of where the DVD Forum felt movie distribution was going, and Toshiba - as a major member of the DVD Forum - seems to be continuing to go in that direction. If Toshiba were to produce Blu-ray players, they'd be making a completely illogical leap into a technology of a type they said was dying.