[IFA09] Toshiba's first Blu-ray products

During the IFA press conference, Toshiba surprisingly announced its first Blu-ray player. Toshiba was the creator of the flopped Blu-ray competitor, HD-DVD. After the Japanese manufacturer cancelled the HD-DVD project, they held on to the idea that the DVD-market did not yet need a successor and the upscaling of DVD's would provide a sufficient quality. Their notebooks and DVD-players with the special Cell-processor as upscaler never really became popular though. Toshiba appears to have come to senses and realizes that the only way to go is Blu-ray.

The company's first player is the BDX2000KE, a full-featured Blu-ray player with support for BD-Live, 24p playback, deep colour and HDMI-CEC to control multiple devices with a single remote. The player is to be released in January 2010 at a still undisclosed price.

Apart from a seperate Blu-ray player, Toshiba will also implement the technology in its laptops. The first model will be the new Satellite P500, an 18,4" notebook which optionally sports a Full HD screen and nVidia GeForce G 210M or GT 230M graphics card.

Toshiba's first Blu-ray player, the BDX2000KE.

Toshiba's Satelllite P500 will feature a Blu-ray drive.

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