Toshiba stubbornly launches the un-Blu-ray, XD-E500 DVD player
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Oh Toshiba, has it really come to this? After a humiliating loss to Blu-ray, Tosh just unveiled its new XD-E500 DVD player. It’s no run o’ the mill DVD player mind you, this unit touts Toshiba’s new eXtended Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology — that super-duper resolution upconverting tech meant to fill the void between ubiquitous upconverting players and Blu-ray. Unfortunately, the player demonstrated offered just “subtle but noticeable sharpening of the image” when compared side-by-side (in a controlled demonstration) with an unnamed $70 upscaler — to its credit, Tosh did not try to compare its new player with an HD-capable Blu-ray machine. Still, more than twice the price for “subtle” hardly sounds like a compelling purchase to us.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Original post by Thomas Ricker