Vizio announced that many of its newest high performance products and technologies found greater success in Q1 2010. According to the statement, notable among these are the growth in LED and large screen (50″+) HDTVs that resulted in an average selling price that grew 27% for the quarter. Vizo, which sold 1.066 million LCD HDTVs …
DivX, Inc. announced that over 300 million DivX devices have now shipped into the global market from consumer electronics manufacturers.
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS) and Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. (TACP) announced that they will be unified into a single operating company. According to the statement, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS markets and sells information technology products, including laptop computers, storage devices, telephone systems and industrial camera products in the U.S.
Toshiba’s Consumer Electronics Group, a division of Toshiba of Canada Limited, announced a special promotion with Zip.ca on all of its 2010 digital audio video products, which include Toshiba’s CV100 series LCD/DVD combo units, Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, DVD players and portable DVD players.
Nero announced that Toshiba will include Nero 9 Essentials and Nero BackItUp & Burn Autobackup Essentials on all upcoming notebooks, netbooks and external hard disc drives (eHDDs) distributed in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), enabling customers to backup files, burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs, and sync files and folders.
iSuppli Corp. announced that Seagate Technology LLC in the fourth quarter of 2009 maintained its lead as the world’s largest manufacturer of Hard Disk Drives (HDD), fending off a strong challenge by perennial second-ranked Western Digital Corp.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (BD4C Licensing Group) announced that they have commenced a worldwide joint licensing program beginning on March 1, 2010 for Blu-ray Disc (BD) and DVD patents essential for BD decoders, BD encoders, BD players, BD read-only discs, BD recordable discs, BD drives, BD/DVD hybrid …
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MOD Systems, Inc. announced new executive leadership, with veterans of the finance, entertainment, technology and retail industries joining its team.
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) announced its new business laptop lineup, including the Blu-ray Disc-equipped Qosmio X500. According to the statement, higher-end members of the Qosmio X500 laptop family feature an Intel Core i7-720QM quad-core processor with Turbo Boost Technology, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M graphics with 1GB GDDR5 graphics memory and up to 8GB of …
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VUDU Inc. announced that it has extended its distribution as an embedded platform to include broadband home theaters, HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc players (BDPs) from LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Samsung Electronics Co. Inc., SANYO Manufacturing Corporation, Sharp Corporation, Toshiba America Consumer Products L.L.C., and VIZIO. According to the statement, the VUDU Streaming Movie …
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Toshiba America Consumer Products announced its expanded range of Blu-ray players with the introduction of the BDX2500, BDX2700 and BDX3000. The BDX3000 will feature Blu-ray 3D capability. According to the statement, all models offer 1080p/24fps Blu-ray playback, upconversion of standard definition DVD, BD-Live, online streaming capability and playback of MP3, HD-JPEG, WMA and AVCHD. Audio …