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$1 Billion Charge to Format-War Loser: Did Toshiba Get Off Easy?
- By sandv blog
- Posted March 13, 2008
To design a consumer electronics product and ramp up its production costs lots and lots of money. To shut down the conveyor belts after marketing is already in full swing costs even more. Still, it sure hurt: Japanese business paper The Nikkei reported Thursday that Toshiba is expected to take a loss of nearly $1 billion in the financial year ending March 31.

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Surrender Ahead for HD DVD?
- By sandv blog
- Posted February 15, 2008
HD DVD proponent Toshiba is expected to wave the white flag in the next few weeks, according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter. The move would surprise few following the announcement by Warner Home Video last month that it would support Blu-ray exclusively beginning in May.

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Picture This
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 1, 2007
2006 was a watershed year for digital photo frames, according to Dallas-based market research company Parks Associates. Sales of digital photo frames in the first half of 2006 showed a typical growth curve and then skyrocketed.

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3rd-Gen HD DVD Players & Firmware Updates
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 6, 2007
Yesterday at the CEDIA Expo in Denver, Toshiba announced three "third-generation" HD DVD players: the HD-A3 (available October at a suggested retail price of $300), HD-A30 (shown, September, $400), and HD-A35 (October, $500). Aside from its lower price and sleeker profile, the HD-A3 breaks little new ground and shares the 1080i max output resolution of its predecessor, the HD-A2.

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