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Toshiba's new ZF LCDs include Cell-based Resolution+ upscaling {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 9:29AM @Joseph, I judge things on their merits. In this instance the thread has discussions over 8 pages including a good number of well informed people who actually own the player. Why shouldn't I take their opinion into account? As I said the reaction was overall lukewarm. Some people liked it but even amongst those nobody was raving it about it or attributing miraculous advances in picture quality or claiming the PQ matched HD. It's just a good upscaling player and the discussion seemed more centred around whether it matched an Oppo or not and what chipset was in it.
Toshiba's new ZF LCDs include Cell-based Resolution+ upscaling {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 8:35AM Yes lukewarm. Go and look at the owners thread on AVS forum. Some people like it, others describe it as a mixed bag or that it has only a marginal or slight effect on PQ. Some say its close enough and better value than an Oppo. Others say its much more expensive than other upscalers which may even use the same chipset. The overall consensus is its a good player with good upscaling capabilities but no BD killer.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1058997
Toshiba's new ZF LCDs include Cell-based Resolution+ upscaling {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 7:21AM Putting an expensive processing chip in a high end TV makes a lot more sense than sticking it in a DVD player. Apparantly Toshiba agree because the XDE player doesn't even use a cell - it uses a Zoran chipset. That might explain why the reaction from owners has been fairly lukewarm so far.
Toshiba's hanging on to those HD DVD patents {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 5:09AM Maybe Toshiba knows that eventually they'll need those patents for their own blu ray player so why sell them? It would be weird if its for CBHD because I thought the whole point of the format was not to be paying money on foreign patents.
JVC's NX-BD3 system enters the Blu-ray HTIB arena {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 4:47AM Note the word "dedicated". The PS3 is already a DLNA client and it doesn't need some dongle to turn it into one. Why didn't JVC just stick wifi and ethernet into their device? It surely can't be more than a ten dollars worth of components.
Sony debuts $1,500 SACD player with HDMI output {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 4:33AM I think the original 20 & 60Gb PS3s could play SACD, Blu Ray and CDs.
Sony debuts $1,500 SACD player with HDMI output {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 4:33AM @squiggleslash, you can churn out as many hypothetical scenarios as you like but it's up to Disney, Fox, Warner to decide if they want combo discs. If they were interested they would have made them, just as some are already packing digital copies on a supplemental DVD even though there is no compulsion to do so. BTW those digital copies are on a DVD so Disney & co. could pack a lower quality DVD on that same disk if they wanted, or even an executable which when run burned a DVD from the digital copy for you. But they don't want to. It is no good complaining at the blu ray format if studios don't want hybrids. If you must have two formats, the answer is simple - buy the Blu Ray version and rent the DVD and rip it, or if you have the know-how rip the Blu Ray version and make the DVD from it yourself, or rip to MP4/DiVx and stream to your XBox 360 or PS3 or AppleTV, or just buy the DVD and watch it on all your devices.
Sony unveils world's thinnest LCD HDTV - 9.9mm KDL-40ZX1 {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 4:14AM There is a white PS3 in the background so my money would be on it being a recent announcement.
Sony unveils world's thinnest LCD HDTV - 9.9mm KDL-40ZX1 {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2008 4:14AM A thin screen is great but all the stuff Sony can't make thin - the processor board, the speakers, the PSU probably has to get shoved out somewhere else. Unless I absolutely wanted to hang a TV on the wall like a picture I think I would be happy to have something thicker which was self contained.
Panasonic's Blu-ray SC-BT100 HTIB system gets reviewed {Engadget HD}
Aug 21st 2008 5:33AM I'd be tempted to buy an HT system if I thought it was value for money. I just don't see any value here though. Like has been said you could buy a PS3 and separates and make a better system than this for the price.
