Toshiba, the former leader of Blu-Ray’s enemy HD-DVD camp, is admitting defeat in the most final way they can: By launching a Blu-Ray player.
The company’s first Blu-Ray/DVD deck should arrive (in Japan first, probably) before Christmas this year, and “sources” say it’ll be called the BD-18 (we think. The Google translation is sort of sketchy). We don’t know anything else about the alleged player, but we imagine some Toshiba exec is sitting in a bathroom stall, crying quietly and cursing Sony. [Yomiuri via Engadget]
John Chapman
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 8:27 AM@InvaderPhlegm – You have said the words that I have said for the last year+++. It *was* a completed product.
Ahh wells….society is full of failures due to money being thrown in the wrong direction…this is just another one.
I have bulked up my HD collection, sure for 1/2 the cost…but im am glad that I have.
It’ll be a while before a Blu-Ray will grace my doorstep.
John Chapman
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM@Afrobean – so you’re saying the Blu-Ray was ready from day #1? – ok then what about profile 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 2.0???
HD-DVD was HD-DVD…there was NO profiles, there was no incompatibilities…it just did it all.
I personally am laughing at everything that came out for Blu-Ray until the END of HD-DVD as it was incomplete!
matt
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 10:11 AMhmm, who is going to buy a player from a company the clearly must have nothing but spite for the format?
Toshiba is a great brand though, here’s hoping they bring out players that humble those from the “bluray elite”