Tag: Toshiba
Toshiba intros Camileo H10 camcorder: HD shooting on a budget
Toshiba has announced the latest addition to is Camileo range of digital camcorders. The H10 offers 720p high definition recording (1,280 x 720 resolution) for a very reasonable £180.
The camcorder comes with an internal memory card with 64MB capacity, but fortunately can also record to external SDHC’s of up to 8GB, offering up to 4 hours of broadcast-quality film…
Toshiba shows off prototype netbook – or is it a UMPC?
Another big boy wants a piece of the small form/small price market – Toshiba…
Toshiba Sportio mobile phone tracks your exercise regime
Putting personal exercise trainers on mobile devices is nothing new, and now Toshiba has jumped into the game with the Sportio…
Toshiba controversially announces their new 1080p upscaling technology will rival Blu-ray
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
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…
Toshiba Qosmio X305 gaming laptop specs and pics leaked
Though we can’t guarantee these are 100% trustworthy, the Net is buzzing with news of an upgraded Qosmio laptop from Toshiba, the X305 which updates the current X205, aimed squarely at gamers…
Toshiba Portégé G810 smartphone launched in Japan
Toshiba has a new smartphone on the market – the Toshiba Portégé G810…
Toshiba launches Gigaframe Q8 range of digital frames
Digital frames are still coming thick and fast, with the Toshiba Gigaframe Q8 range seeing two new additions – the 8-inch Gigaframe Q80 and Q81…
Toshiba to have another crack at Sony in the HD war
The battle for the discs may have been lost but Toshiba are not about to give up on the HD war so easily.
According to an insider, who is probably being dragged out and shot as we speak, Toshiba is set to release a DVD upscaler…
First Blu-ray players for under $300 alert!
The cheapest Blu-ray players in the world have just clocked in at the American supermarket chain, Wal-mart, at under $300 – roughly £150.
Available for $298, the Magnavox NB500MG9 and Sylvania NB500SL9 have some nice features surprisingly, including Blu-ray Final Profile 1.1, HDMI 1.3, and DVD ‘upscaling’ to 1080p. Still, they’re not quite as cheap as those $99 Toshiba HD DVD players…
