http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/ Engadget Comments for Toshiba aims for living room domination with StorE TV media set-top box http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
You're right, having choices is a bad thing.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
Take a second look at that shitty, embarrassing excuse of menu navigation on the LED display of that Toshiba unit. How is anyone supposed to be excited over such a thing?

Toshiba, please! Don't jump in this game if you can't even take an UI seriously.]]>Feb 11th 2010 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 11th 2010 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/UI]]>Feb 11th 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 11th 2010 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
> It's funny how increasingly, major electronics manufacturers are
> making set-top boxes that, in essence, benefit from the torrenting of
> HD video. 1.5 TB of 1080p content from ... where?

Here's a novel idea: buy it. Take the money you would give to Comcast and give it to Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart or the Movie Trading company instead. At 25G a pop, it's pretty easy to fill a terabyte hard drive. Even with SD content, it's pretty easy to fill up multiple multi-terabyte hard drives over time.

No kick-me sign required.

You can also fill 1.5TB pretty quickly with cable and broadcast recordings. They can be just as bulky as BluRay disks.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
No torrents and no pron ... I'm at 6TB worth of movies and music. 1.5TB's is nothing, especially if you rip your Blu Rays to disk.]]>Feb 10th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Yes you can rip your own BluRay discs... but I'm pretty sure that that is still technically illegal, which is what I assume cobaltage was referring too. Media companies have given us very few methods to legally store digital content (especially HD).]]>Feb 10th 2010 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
That will be an interesting "prosecution".

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, we intend to show that the defendant did willfully and maliciously go about buying 1500 DVDs from Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart and then did with intent and malice of forethought dared to use those purchased disks in a manner of his choosing.
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These STB's are almost always priced at the cost of getting a dedicated W7MC machine and contain only a fraction of the usability. Throw in proprietary crap and these things will never make a huge dent in the home theater market.

They are really only useful to people to who have more money then sense and want a simple solution that looks nice.]]>Feb 10th 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/Feb 10th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/>Jeez, yet another STB. Yawn!

I thought they had medicines for that...]]>Feb 11th 2010 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
Obviously not THE xmb style interface, but something like that.

On the TV. I'm sure this thing turns off that bright menu when you watch the film. While this box is sexy enough to sell very well, it's all about how well it organizes your files.

It's just another thing your 360 or PS3 or computer can already do, though.]]>Feb 11th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/I would like to see how well this plays with the digital cable box or satellite receiver box. ]]>Feb 11th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/toshiba-aims-for-living-room-domination-with-store-tv-media-set/
All for competition, but too bad everyone couldn't agree on a common platform.

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