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Tech NewsToshiba Announces Laptop Battery Recall
Showing that they’re a big boy laptop player like Dell and Apple, Toshiba announces that they’re recalling their older Satellite and Tecra laptop batteries for fear of malfunction as well. These batteries are also made by Sony, like Dell’s and Apple’s, but reportedly won’t have any chance of igniting. For flammable fears, forfeit fearsome fatal … Continued
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SED TVs – A Fall from Grace
Some of you may remember me whining about a complete lack of SED televisions at CEDIA this year. We still can’t say why it appears there were no models on display (unlike at CES), but what we can say is that Toshiba and Canon have announced their intentions for an SED release around the 2008 … Continued
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High-Def Haiku: Win a Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD Player
We’re giving away a biggie—the Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player valued at $499. To win this it is pretty simple, write up a haiku about high-definition video. A haiku is a style of poetry. It is a three-lined poem—the first line containing five syllables, the second line containing seven syllable and the third line containing five … Continued
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CEDIA 2006: SED Where Are You?
This is by no means official, but according to my hours of Internet browsing, SED technology is not at CEDIA 2006. You may remember SED from our posts during CES this year. It’s built upon the foundations of phosphorus televisions, but Canon and Toshiba basically packed all that technology into each pixel of a flat-panel. … Continued
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CEDIA 2006: 2nd Gen Toshiba HD DVD Players
Today Toshiba also announced the addition of two HD DVD players to their line of HD DVD players. But before I get to that, I need to mention some funny tidbits the PR lady said. She rambled about how well the HD DVD launch went in April, then she mentioned that there are Toshiba HD … Continued
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CEDIA 2006: Toshiba Cinema Series Pro LCD TVs
Toshiba announced the addition of two Cinema Series Pro models to their line of REGZA LCD TVs. These are very high-end TVs. They were created specifically for hi-fi lovers and custom installations. There will be 42-inch and 47-inch models available. The displays feature PixelPure 12-bit processing that prevents banding and artifacts. Also integrated into these … Continued
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Toshiba Creates Three-Layered Disc
Toshiba has been tinkering with the HD DVD and DVD disc formats, putting together a hybrid format with three layers that contain both formats. The DVD section will be playable on conventional DVD players, and with a firmware update, standard HD DVD players can play both formats. So it looks like we’ll be seeing either … Continued
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Toshiba Dual-Screen UMPC PDA E-Book Doohickey
It’s hard to describe what exactly this device is, but it obviously falls into a lot of categories. First and foremost, it has two screens, at least one of which is a touchscreen meant to replace the keyboard. Not much other information is know. It runs Windows CE, has a slot for SD and is … Continued
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Gigabeat V: Portable Med..Waitaminute
We like the Gigabeats, this year. In fact, some of our colleagues have whispered that the Gigabeat S is their favorite player of the year. Really! So this bigger, better, Gigabeat V, with its 30GB hard drive, and 3.5-inch screen looks awesome…but also familiar. HEY WAIT A MINUTE! You’re just like those chunky Portable Media … Continued
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Toshiba Launches Qosmio G35 Laptop With Core 2 Duo and HD-DVD
Not wanting to be left out of the Intel Core 2 Duo (or Merom) fiesta that’s been going on for the past day or so, Toshiba’s come out with the Qosmio G35-AV660, a laptop featuring Intel’s latest mobile CPU and an HD-DVD-ROM. Available now, the Qosmio G35-AV660 benefits from the increased horsepower of the Merom … Continued
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Toshiba’s TransMemory: 16GB USB Flash Drive
Toshiba is about to launch a new line of USB flash drives called TransMemory, the biggest of which will be a limited edition 16GB behemoth. The flash drives will come with U3’s (the fancy name Toshiba has given to the ability to store executable applications and program settings and not just “regular” data an independent … Continued
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First Generation Microsoft Zunes Are Toshiba OEMs, Second Generation Not-So-Much
Crunchgear has a scoop from a source that confirms the first generation Zune is an OEMed Toshiba Gigabeat, combined with some added on features and functionality made just for Microsoft. Microsoft had to contract Toshiba to build this first unit so they could rush the player out in time for Christmas 2006, probably before the … Continued
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Toshiba 1089 Cleared By FCC, Looks Just Like The Zune
The Toshiba 1089, USB 2.0 compatible, has a 30GB hard drive, and uses 802.11b/g WiFi. Hmm, does that sound familiar to anyone? Eh? Doesn’t it look familiar? With its 3.0-inch TFT LCD display and FM tuner? So Microsoft and Toshiba are probably working together after all. FCC [via Mobile Whack via Crunchgear]
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Is The Microsoft Zune Just A Re-Skinned Toshiba Gigabeat?
Is the Zune just the Toshiba player with some re-arranged buttons? An insider at Microsoft gives us some food for thought. Stay with us on this. First, Microsoft spun off a good portion of the Xbox 360 team to work on the Zune, including J Allard. They formed a new team called “Pyxis”, which is … Continued
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Toshiba TDP-TW100U: Good for Conference Room or Bedroom
Toshiba’s cranking out some pretty good projectors lately, and its latest is the TDP-TW100U, a DLP projector aimed at mobile professionals and shining a white-hot 2700 ANSI lumens—that’s enough light to mesmerize a whole roomful of people with your presentation even if it’s brightly lit in there, better to keep everybody from falling asleep. A … Continued