Digital broadcasting is on its way to becoming a global phenomenon, and large-sized flat panel display TVs enjoy increasing popularity.
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Toshiba will demonstrate this latest prototype HD DVD player and an recordable HD DVD drive equipped with the new LSI chipset at the International CES 2004 (Booth#12214), from January 8 to 11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.Īs the DVD market continues to record substantial year-on-year growth and increasing penetration into the digital consumer, computer and entertainment arenas, moves are under way to promote DVD's evolution to next-generation hardware and software suited to high-definition TV and content. This too represents a long step toward achieving practical, commercial HD DVD equipment, and will promote development of more compact products. Toshiba has also developed a new LSI chipset for HD DVD that brings together the servo controller, data signal processor and ATAPI interface.
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This advance achieves the functionality and compactness required for consumer-use HD DVD, and is also more economical than dual-lens head or dual optical heads that require two separate lenses for each laser diode. The latest prototype dual-compatibility player incorporates an optical pick-up head integrating both a red laser diode for standard DVD discs and a blue laser diode for HD DVD, along with a single objective lens that works with both.
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Toshiba has recently made a series of crucial innovations in support of commercial development of next generation HD DVD drives and players. The new player points the way to a commercial product that will allow fans of DVD to enjoy the richer image quality of HD DVD while protecting their current investment in DVD software libraries. The player features a single-lens optical head mechanism that integrates both red and blue laser diodes, assuring support for both the next-generation “HD DVD-ROM” format (version 0.9) recently approved by the DVD Forum and backward compatibility with today's DVD ROM discs. Tokyo - Toshiba Corporation today announced development of a prototype high-definition DVD player that can play high-definition DVD discs and current DVDs.
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Player that plays current and next-generation DVDs New single-head optical pick-up mechanism supports integrated Toshiba's Next-Generation High-Definition DVD Player Prototype Secures Backward Compatibility with Current DVD discs