|
XD-E500
Toshiba XD-E500 Review
We already picked the new Toshiba XD-E500 upscaling DVD player as one of our Top 100 Holiday Gift Tips. Now our review partner Digital Trends tested the XD-E500 and published a review.
Quote from the XD-E500 review: "Just when I thought that I would probably never review a DVD player gain, Toshiba introduced their new XD-E500 1080p up conversion DVD player. Toshiba, who was one of the co-inventor's DVD technology, and also the creator of the now defunct high-definition HD DVD optical disc, is coming back to the DVD marketplace with a new upconverting DVD player. Why? While still licking its wounds from the loss of its high-definition optical disc format, Toshiba has unveiled a new video processing technology called 'XDE,' which stands for 'Extended Detail.'
Read more
Posted on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:13:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Weekly Top 10: PSP 3000, Toshiba XD-E500, Tribot and Femisapien
This week we launched our
100 day countdown to the
Thanksgiving Sales. Every day since August 19th we feature one
Tech-Gift Tip
until retailers will blast out their Thanksgiving Sale offers.
This week the Leipzig Game Convention started and on the hardware side
Sony made three announcements:
Sony PSP-3000,
160GB PS3, and
wireless keypad for PS3.
See also our latest Tech Video
Reports.
Read more
Posted on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Toshiba XD-E500 DVD Player is I4U Top 100 Holiday Gift Tip #3
We are starting easy on the Hometheater components holiday gift tips as we still expect several new announcements in the Blu-ray and video streaming categories. The new Toshiba XD-E500 upscaling DVD player is possibly the best affordable DVD player out there this fall.
Toshiba threw all their anger from loosing the HD disc war with HD-DVD into making the XD-500 DVD player. The new DVD player features Toshiba's XDE technology.
XDE takes according to Toshiba the DVD picture quality to a whole new level. In addition to providing upconversion from 480i/p up to 1080p, XDE offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that allow for greater detail, more vivid colors and stronger contrast that bring standard DVD quality closer to the HD experience.
Read more
Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Toshiba XD-E500 DVD Player with XDE unveiled
Toshiba as you know lost the HD DVD format war and had to bury their HD-DVD format and leave the field to Sony's Blu-ray.
Today Toshiba announced a new DVD player technology dubbed XDE. XDE takes according to Toshiba the DVD picture quality to a whole new level. In addition to providing upconversion from 480i/p up to 1080p, XDE offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that allow for greater detail, more vivid colors and stronger contrast that bring standard DVD quality closer to the HD experience.
This is a nice try by Toshiba to reduce the value of Blu-ray by improving the DVD picture quality.
Read more
Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:29:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Related Offers
Sponsored Links
Subscribe to I4U Gadget Flyer
Stay in touch with our weekly round-up of the Top 10 Technology stories with our free newsletter.
Subscribe the I4U News RSS Feed
Follow I4U News on TwitterI4U Feature Highlights
