Toshiba set to release a Blu-Ray player?

1080living.com has learned through sources in the distribution and retail business that the buzz is Toshiba already has a Blu-Ray player in the works ready for production for a September 08 release but now this has been pushed up to a July 08 release with recent events in the industry.

This would make sense as Toshiba is a major electronics giant and supporting Blu-Ray will only benefit the company in the long run. Toshiba is currently liquidating HD-DVD players for as little as $90.00 which many analyst consider to be under their cost but as demand dries up Toshiba is trying to cash in on last minute consumers that will be swayed by price alone.

One source cited 2 players are in the works with a price target of $250 and $350.00.

Never heard of this site before so take it with a grain of salt.

[Mr_Kuwabara]

Talk about Irony.

[actas123]

Nice pic. Thats Colgate spokesperson lol..

[phony force slayer]

yer i thought that as well bubbles for you for the picture nice one lol

[cloud360-13th_acount]

$250

[pwnsause]

ZoMG, Teh Irony!!!!, well they might even have the best standalone BD player, Sony Had the Best VHS players back in the Day when betamax died.

[hella whip]

Now this really would be the official end of HD-DVD.

Edit: The site does look a bit "Homemade" though, doubt its true.

[Mr_Kuwabara]

The sites template sucks but the site itself looks overall, legit.

Yet again this is just a rumor.

[Shaka2K6]

Sony laptops > toshiba laptops.
Sony HDTVs ? toshiba tvs

Sony > toshiba

[TwissT]

Toshiba products suck?? Can you explain the Cell processor? Toshiba, Sony and another company (I dont't know who) all joined together to make the cell which is *surprise* inside the ps3 and since the cell is a nice piece of technology your statment of "toshiba products sucks anywyas." Fails, sorry.

[avacadosnorkel]

this sounds about right. and Sony should make Microsoft pay 10 times as much to get on board to release the bluray add-on

[Covenant]

...And MS would charge 10X as much for Sony to have Windows for their Vaio computers. Not gonna happen either way.

Sony's just one part of the Blu-Ray consortium. If a company as big and influential as MS wants in on Blu-Ray, they'll get it.

[avacadosnorkel]

Microsoft has stolen your soul

[Covenant]

Nobody owns me. Period.

After four dead consoles and Windows ME, I have no love for MS. My point is that from a strictly business standpoint, denying MS access to Blu-Ray would be foolish...just as denying Sony access to Windows would be equally stupid.

Does Sony own your soul?

[Baba1906]

no sony does not own my soul i own the ps3.

[ColdWinter]

there isnt going to be any blu ray addon cuz it would make the 360 cost too much unless they plan to sell the addon for $50 and make XBL free and its hard to believe that at this point in time some retards r buying HD dvd players

[f7ss1]

this would finally put all this confusion for the average consumer to rest

[avacadosnorkel]

Microsoft always says they have the best application in the movie business with whatever is included on HD-DVD. But Blu-ray didn't need whatever Microsoft has to win the format war. I could care less what it offers at this point. And just to be a pal, Sony should charge Microsoft more to join the bluray disc association, not use the application, and drag out the process until next year to hurt 360 sales.

[jaja1434]

To copy the reply from your EXACT same post...
MS should charge Sony 10x for Sony's use of Windows on the Vaio

[avacadosnorkel]

Sony makes a lot of stuff. I forgot about that. But the VAIO is a good laptop. SONY makes good stuff

[gololo]

no no....MS should pay us to have their crappy Vista pre-installed in our PCs/Laptops (I have spent more time that I want upgrading my PCs from Vista to a dual boot: Linux/WinXP)

[JohnRico]

Wow fan boys are making fun of this when they were begging for an end of The Format War ? Talk about being stupid

[OC Shock Value]

Smart move..

EVERYONE..

Please welcome toshiba to The Winners Circle

[DFresh]

Toshiba admits defeat and now they want to join the blu- squad.
Forget them.

[pwnsause]

I guess Tosh went to sony to negotiate if this is true.

[Lumbo]

They don't need to, they have a joint venture with Samsung that keeps the door open for them to switch any time.

[crck]

and I'm guessing Sony gets a big chunk of it. Why else would there be a format war between 2 electronics companies? So yeah I'm sure Toshiba has to talk to the BDA/Sony if they want to make a player.

[dragonJP]

...for Toshiba and Sony to go back to the negotiating table. Toshiba has much less leverage now. It may be too late for them to come up with a new format, but if the Blu-ray group allows Toshiba to make Blu-ray players, then Toshiba will clearance out all HD DVDs and HD DVD players IMMEDIATELY. Toshiba will only add to competition needed to get Blu-ray player prices down to where more people will begin to accept hi-def discs overall over DVDs. Remember, for Blu-ray the battle vs. HD DVD is over, but the battle vs. DVD is far from over. Talk about jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire....