Previous
Windows 7 media center review
Logitech Harmony Adapter for Playstation 3 review
HD 101: What is ATSC, PSIP, QAM, and 8-VSB?
How to install a CableCARD tuner in your DIY Media Center
DISH Network launches remote DVR control
Engadget HD Podcast 157 - 09.29.2009
Paradigm SUB 25 subwoofer review
Engadget goes behind the Dolby logo
Breaking news Feed
- Boxee inks deal with first hardware partner: a 'Boxee Box' is coming
- Best Buy partnering with CinemaNow to stream first-run DVDs to 'all web-connected devices sold'
- Netflix coming next month to PlayStation 3
- Toshiba details CELL REGZA LCD TV, coming December to Japan (update: video!)
- Intel announces Atom CE4100 for insanely powerful cable boxes and Blu-ray players
- Media Center CableCARDs freed from OEM requirement
- Samsung's LED TV Couple packs a 7-inch tablet remote for streaming TV and so much more
- Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray player coming November for $250, gives HD-DVD the final cold shoulder
- PS3 Slim bitstreams Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA audio, at last
- Xbox 360 officially the only console to stream Netflix -- sorry, PS3 and Wii
Featured stories Feed
- Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray mini-review
- Ask Engadget HD: Is it (still) a good time to buy a TiVo?
- Pace and Rovi work together to make a standard set-top a true multi-room DVR
- Ready or not, the latest 3D technology is coming home
- How to automatically skip commercials in Windows 7 Media Center
- Ask Engadget HD: How do you evaluate HDTVs in-store?
- Sharp AQUOS LC-52LE700UN impressions
- Ask Engadget HD: Best home theater setup for gaming?
- TDK's heavily stacked 320GB disc shows its nearly-clear face at CEATEC
- Panasonic's 1080p twin-lens P2 camcorder seen behind three-dee glass at CEATEC
- NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs promise to dramatically cut supercomputing costs
- Verizon responds to AT&T's Map For That lawsuit: 'the truth hurts'
- Facebook for PlayStation 3 'begins' this Thursday with firmware update 3.10 (video)
- HTC Hero, Samsung Moment now $100 on Sprint courtesy of Best Buy
- Mad Catz takes aim at Microsoft with its own Wireless-N Gaming Adapter
- Verizon responds to AT&T's Map For That lawsuit: 'the truth hurts'
- HTC Hero, Samsung Moment now $100 on Sprint courtesy of Best Buy
- Sciphone's Android-toting N21 unboxed, dual SIM slots caught rockin' the suburbs
- Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1
- iPhone 'home' button earrings are for serious fangirls (and guys) only
Resources
Sections
- Announcements
- Ask Engadget HD
- DIY
- Features
- Industry
- Misc
- Podcasts
- Polls
- Regulatory
- Reviews
- Blu-ray
- Cables
- Camcorders
- Displays
- DVRs
- HD DVD
- Media PCs
- Media streamers
- Other formats
- Other hardware
- Players
- Ports
- Receivers
- Recorders
- Remotes
- Set-top boxes
- Speakers
- Switches
- Tuners
Hardware
Manufacturers
WIN Network
- Autos
- Technology
- Lifestyle
- Gaming
- Finance
- Entertainment on AOL
- Lifestyle on AOL
- Sports on AOL
- Travel on AOL
- Also on AOL
Other Weblogs Inc. Network blogs you might be interested in:
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
shawnmos @ Nov 21st 2008 9:25PM
LOL, come on. This is pathetic. I used to be a huge HD DVD supporter. Had 3 HD DVD players, and even I realized that Blu-ray was the future which is why I bought a Combo player. Toshiba needs to get over it and produce a Blu-ray player.
Ed @ Nov 21st 2008 9:44PM
Oh yeah, because Blu-ray is setting the market on fire.
How dare Toshiba stand against THE AVALANCHE THAT IS BLU-RAY!?!?!?
Please... Toshiba isn't losing out on anything by refusing to go to the Blu-ray 'party' at this stage. They may release a player at some point, but I doubt it will be until Blu-ray has solidified itself in the market and all of the heavy lifting has been done by other companies.
And if that never happens, which there is a decent chance of, Toshiba gets to revel in the fact that they peed in Sony's coffee by contributing to Blu-rays stagnation; first with HD DVD, and then by not lending their support to the format after the war.
squiggleslash @ Nov 21st 2008 10:35PM
Yes, after losing a billion on HD DVD, they need to pour money into another format that's going nowhere.
I'll never understand what the obsession is that Blutards have with Toshiba Blu-ray players. None of you would ever buy one anyway.
zargon @ Nov 21st 2008 10:55PM
DVD is going no where? DVD is going strong and that is not going to change any time soon. Blu-ray has yet to break out of the niche market and I don't see that happening soon and who knows, it may never happen.
I think DVD right now can be a sound investment and there is always room for improvement. No one seems to be making quality DVD players anymore and while these might slightly geared towards a niche market themselves, there is a much larger pool of people and movies to help push sales.
DVD4ME @ Nov 22nd 2008 12:28AM
Why would they invest in a niche that is currently going no where, IF it takes off they can get on board then IF they choose.
In the mean time, they sit back and enjoy the royalties from the DVD compatible blu ray players and the DVDs the blu ray crowd are still buying as well, that would certainly be more profitable then trying to compete for 2.5% of the BR market, sony has got the rest.
This war isn't over, blu ray won the first skirmish is all.
squiggleslash @ Nov 22nd 2008 7:30AM
zargon - I was responding to shawnmos, who was suggesting Toshiba make a Blu-ray player. I'm not sure how you got out of my comment that I was talking about DVD, especially given the last paragraph.
zargon @ Nov 22nd 2008 9:30AM
@squiggleslash alcohol?