Toshiba XDE DVD Player: Better than Blu-Ray?

By Rob Enderle
August 26th, 2008

OK let’s answer the question in the title right up front. I’ve been using the new Toshiba XDE DVD player for about a week and it isn’t better than my Playstation 3 (PS3) Blu-Ray player. But Toshiba did some things very right and it (and other DVD players like it) could keep Blu-Ray from ever replacing DVD. This is because consumers tend to buy on price and the majority of them will gravitate towards quality considered “good enough” and the Toshiba XDE to me IS good enough. Home theater owners will clearly still prefer Blu-Ray.

Upconversion DVD

We remain a fan of the Oppo DVD players which have been around for some time. These players provided high quality upconversion for prices around $200. Unfortunately Oppo lacks the marketing strength of a major CE vendor and the competing upconverting players from the majors were cheap imitations of what the ...

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