Toshiba adopts Blu-ray for laptops, completes shame circle
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Sep 3rd 2009 2:52PM
posted Sep 3rd 2009 2:52PM
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No 1080p upscaling dvd drive?
VLC upscales DVD movies.
What I meant is: No XDE 1080p upscaling dvd drive? I'm not really sure what they're doing at this point, seems like they're fighting their own products.
Even windows media player will upscale the DVD, its all about how the codec is handled and more are configured to upscale through the GPU
>What's ironic is that I'm using an old laptop.
HC, that sums up your last paragraph. I really, really think that you need to look up the definition of "ironic".
Well considering no studio is making anymore HD-DVDs, i think this was a better business movie then including HD-DVD players in their laptops...just saying.
The better tech won...now go listen to Joe Walsh or move to China.
I don't get what the irony is? They are adopting the now industry-standard format. They tried their own format and it lost. So they now adopt blu-ray to make up for their heavy losses and to gain some more marketshare.
No different than from Sony making VHS players after Betamax lost.
The real irony for me is, I am writing about Toshiba putting blu-ray in their laptops, when I myself am writing this comment on a Toshiba HD-DVD equipped laptop I got on black friday about 2 years back lol.
I have a question...why does Engadget always "warn" readers that it's a "pdf link/file"?
What's the big deal about that? Is it some type of crime or something? Does it offend certain people?
I mean there's nothing I've seen or heard to suggest that pdfs are bad in some way so what exactly is the basis of the warning?
I think it's cause most people have Adobe Reader, which takes FOREVER to load, especially on older computers(though it's still a stupid long wait on good hardware).
No it's because the Acrobat reader plugin doesn't work half the time in browsers and when it does, it freezes the whole thing until the entire document loads.
I think its the fact that not everybody likes reading pdf files. Plus, sometimes my firefox will freeze for a few minutes when its trying to open a large pdf file. I prefer to just right click on the link and download it, doesnt freeze firefox with that method.
Must be a carry over from the days where Acrobat was the only viable choice, and machines were not fast enough to combat it's bloat.
I remember browsing on a PIII 800 MHz years back with Acrobat 6 or 7, and god forbid I ever clicked a pdf, I might as well go get coffee and donuts in the time it would take to load...
pdf crashes my firefox more then maya crashes on its own
Because the normal expectation is that a link would go to a web page, while a PDF is unexpected. If you were expecting a web page and suddenly your PDF viewer fires up, you might think there was some malware or trojan download put in a page.
It's because it won't open if you don't have a pdf reader installed on your smartphone...
thanks Adobe.
Thanks for the responses guys. It was bugging the hell out of me. I was so perplexed as to why it had to be a "Warning!"
Lol technology never ceases to amuse me. I love this website and I love the information that you guys provide on a constant basis.
Engadget FTW!
Because adobe reader is a bloated, useless piece of crap that will bring a PC to its knees, especially a less powerful laptop.
Because people like me HATE pdf files.
Can someone explain to me why our computers load up adobe reader extremely slowly, whereas my crappy old sony ericsson phone can open up a pdf in about 3 seconds using whatever in built software it has. Why do we still use the bloatware, why isn't the super awesome fast pdf reader standard?
Some of them are just racist against pdfs though, even when they work fine.
The real irony is that Toshiba is supporting Blu-Ray before Apple. Talk about your holdouts.
There is nothing to be ashame of when they lost in the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war.
This just shows that Toshiba has some humility and is willing to admit when they were wrong and that they lost. However they are one of the few exceptions in the history of wars, militarily, civil, media format, or otherwise.
So...1080p on an 18" screen, huh? Heck, why not go for the gusto and put Blu-Ray on a 11.6" screen, running 1366 lines wide?
LOL
Because the 1920 lines wide that this has is more than 1366? Progress is a good thing? Higher resolution is better?
Why is this funny? You know Blu-ray is a storage medium as well right? And the resolution sure is nice when sitting that close in my opinion.
Very pretty. Regardless of who lost the HD/Blu-ray war, we're all winners with products like this.
CALLED IT! F^&$#NG called it.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/toshiba-bdx2000-blu-ray-player-coming-november-for-250-gives-h/comments/21353000/
This seems like its going to be a decent laptop probably a bit better than my acer 8920G with having a bigger hard drive
Don't see why Engadget is picking on Tohisba for for supporting a format that won over 18 months ago. Do you expect them to put HD DVD drives in their laptops for Q4 2009 and Q1 2010?
A bag of hurt, I tells ya son!
I have a feeling Toshiba will be putting out Blu-Ray hardware 5 years from now and Engadget will still be talking about the 'shame' of it all...
And macs still won't have blu-ray
The sneeriness is just appalling. Toshiba is reacting to consumer demand and releasing a BD-enabled laptop. Liek, ohmigawd.
HD DVD is dead. Get over it.
It's called "staying competitive". They invented a HD movie disc format that ended up losing the battle, and now they're making hardware for the format. Of course, Weblogs, Inc. wouldn't know anything about keeping up with the competition *cough cough* NESTED COMMENTS *cough*