Toshiba will be entering Blu-ray in the coming year, will release compatible devices with rapid market growth

Toshiba which ended the business of "HD DVD" promoted as the next-generation DVD at the end of March 2008,It is considering entry into "Blu-ray" which is a standard competing from multiple circumstancesWe talked about in GIGAZINE before, but it became clear that it is intention to enter in this year as well.

He said that the Blu - ray market was rapidly growing and it is planning to release corresponding products.

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Toshiba enters Blu-ray within the year: Economic news: Money · Economy: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun news report, it seems that Toshiba has entered the Blu-ray market. Toshiba originally aimed to revive in the next generation of Blu-ray, but he decided to enter the market with the rapid growth of the Blu-ray market.

And it is said that Blu - ray compatible products will be released within the year, and Toshiba 's entry will result in major electronics manufacturers working on Blu - ray, so expectations are high for the product lineup of compatible products and software I'm getting it.

By the way, as the Internet distribution of television programs is progressing abroad, the expansion of demand for recording and playback machines, which are mainstream in Japan, can not be expected, so Toshiba is planning to release the current DVD and Blu - ray It will be a reproduction only machine corresponding to.

In addition to being able to record with high definition image quality on DVD, high definition recorder equipped with original function such as being able to watch DVD with high vision image quality "VARDIAIt is Toshiba who is doing the work, but it seems a bit wasteful that only playback-only machines are released This is ...