Toshiba makes timid Blu-ray showing at IFA, still believes in other forms of HD distribution
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Aside from the new JournE touch, the other main thrust at IFA’s booth is Blu-ray — at least, one would think. In reality, when we finally found the lone BDX2000, the LCD it was plugged into was off, while numerous DVD players and upscaling tech demos littered the surrounding booth area. Once we got a rep to turn it on for us, the Blu-ray player seemed to work just fine, as should be expected. The new Blu-ray equipped P500, however, wasn’t so successful: our colleagues at Engadget Spanish watched an attempted Blu-ray showing on the laptop go awry, and by the time we’d dropped by the booth, any Blu-ray models of the P500 had been pulled from the show floor due to crashiness. In talking with a Toshiba rep, it’s clear that the company hasn’t abandoned its ideas of internet distribution and other alternatives to the once rival format of Blu-ray. The company is looking into a solution that uses a Blu-ray disc and BD Live to stream internet media to the player, and has packed in decent codec support for playing back media off of the BDX2000’s SD card reader. We’re sure Toshiba will figure out its P500 woes before the laptop ships to consumers, but there’s no lack of interestingness in these first displays of Toshiba’s “commitment” to the Blu-ray format.
Gallery: Toshiba’s BDX2000 ‘in action’ at IFA
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