Tag Archives: Toshiba

Despite Toshiba Price Cuts, Blu-ray Players Continue To Dominate

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by MegaZone

TWICE magazine reports that leaked NPD figures show Blu-ray is still dominating player sales. For the week ending January 26th Blu-ray claimed 65% of standalone player sales to HD DVD’s 28%. And 6% went to the combo players. (The other … Continue reading →

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive MSRP Dropped To $129.99

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2008 by MegaZone

I’ve seen this in so many places I can’t even remember where I spotted it first yesterday. It seems Toshiba isn’t the only brand-name trying the deep-discount approach to move HD DVD products. Microsoft just slashed the MSRP on their … Continue reading →

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Onkyo ‘Suspends’ HD DVD Player Production

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by MegaZone

Toshiba’s price cuts seem to have scored an own-goal on Onkyo, which could be considered the third case of friendly-fire taking out an HD DVD player vendor. Early on Thomson/RCA sold a re-badged Toshiba player, but they dropped HD DVD … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray Holds On To Player Sales Lead Over HD DVD While Toshiba Struggles

Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by MegaZone

Despite Toshiba’s massive player price cuts, which took effect on January 13th, HD DVD was unable to undo the sales advantage of Blu-ray in standalone player sales for the week ending January 19th. Not surprisingly, Blu-ray did lose market share … Continue reading →

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Gizmodo’s Take On the Format War & HD DVD’s Demise

Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 by MegaZone

Gizmodo has an interesting post on the Blu-ray / HD DVD format war, and, in their words, the ‘demise of HD DVD’. They repeat a rumor I’ve seen reported elsewhere, that Fox has been considering switching to HD DVD, and … Continue reading →

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