Toshiba launches tough and stylish portable USB 2.0 hard drives

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Toshiba today announced the availability of three new portable hard drives, all with stylish, durable casing for keeping data safe on the move.

The Gecko Green drive can store 160GB of data and is also ideal as an external drive for a desktop computer.

The Hot Rod Red 250GB drive is great for users with larger amounts of data, particularly multimedia, while the largest capacity drive is the Carbon Grey model, with 320GB of storage…

Toshiba controversially announces their new 1080p upscaling technology will rival Blu-ray

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Early June a rumour emerged that Toshiba would be launching a new attack on Sony, via the magic of new ‘upscaling’ technology. Of course, this is nothing new, with Toshiba themselves working on similar products for “some considerable years, at least 3-5 years”, with DVD players, TVs and now laptops containing the upscaling chips, plus with their ‘Super-resolution’ imagery where SD-content is upscaled via an interpolation algorithm to 1080p.

However, today at a London event, Toshiba formally announced upscaling would be their next plan of attack on Sony, claiming they would be focussing on “taking standard content, and displaying in HD format”. This technology, upscaling standard definition content, such as a DVD, to a higher resolution, has long been controversial for not even comparing to the real high-def experience that comes via Blu-ray, or HD DVD…

Toshiba announces new Qosmio laptops: F50, G50 for AV, X300 for gaming

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Toshiba will launch three new high performance Qosmio laptops in the autumn, two designed to handle high-end audio and video applications, and one aimed at gamers.

The Qosmio F50 and Qosmio G50 sport Toshiba’s brand new “SpursEngine” Quad Core HD Processor, based on the same powerful cell architecture in use by Sony’s PS3, consisting of four Synergistic Processor Elements (SPEs). This allows for processor-intensive functions such as real time DVD upscaling and video editing…