Toshiba RD-A1 HD DVD recorder launches in Japan
by Richard Lawler 
posted Jul 27th 2006 at 5:18AM
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Toshiba delays their HD DVD recorder - RD-A1
by Matt Burns posted Jul 13th 2006 at 9:39AM
If you were saving your pennies for Toshiba's new RD-A1 HD DVD player/recorder, you have a couple more weeks. Toshiba is having problems getting parts for their unit and the unit is now officially delayed till the end of the month. We doubt any of our readers were going to get one anyways. Toshiba has no plans on shipping the $3,453 priced unit over seas to America; Japan and the US are different types of market. Their country is saturated with terrestrial digital signals where they can utilizes the 1-terabyte capacity a bit more then we can. Sure, some markets have a dozen OTA signals, but most do not have anywhere near that.
We are curious though. Is there anyone out there planning on purchasing one of these units?
