Toshiba has finally given in and surrendered to Sony, now it’s planning to start shifting its own Blu-ray players. We always suspected its XDE DVD player was a bit of a desperate stop gap but would you part with your own money for a Toshiba Blu-ray player, especially given that Tosh’s own UK CEO thinks Blu-ray is going to be outdated by downloads anyway?
It’d be nice to say the Electricpig Forum was divided on the issue, but it’s pretty one sided.
AsciiSmoke wouldn’t have a problem buying a Tosh Blu-ray, but only when they get round to un-inventing the PS3: “I already have a PS3 and I’ve yet to see a feature of interest appear on another device that the PS3 can’t already do.”
James Holland, the man in charge over here at Electricpig towers, can’t see any reason for customers to pick Tosh over the already well established Samsung or LG unless it can pull something super cheap out of the hat.
Perhaps summing it up best – and winning extra points for puns along the way – is Bongo: “Load of old Tosh! Too little, too late. Everyone who’s desperate for a Blu-ray already has one. What’s so different about Toshiba’s? Seems a little desperate.”
So can Toshiba pull it back and finally get a slice of the HD pie or should it just walk away with its head held high? Dive into our Forum and say what you think.
“HD DVD is the Future”
” XDE Upscaler is the future”
“Downloads are the future, but we will sell you a Blu-Ray player in the meantime”
Did Microsoft and Toshiba think all consumers were idiots?
Blu-ray will yes be superseded by downloads, but it’s going to be a long time, perhaps 5 or 10 years, before we are downloading Blu-ray quality HD content at speed over the UK’s currently appalling internet infrastructure.
The cuestion is not the availability, is the price. If it cost to consumers $100.00 then they will sell all that could make. But for $500.00 is another history….