Jan 08
3D systems manufacturer which created the ReadD 3D system used my many cinemas for showing 3D movies has now signed up Toshiba, Panasonic and us TV broadcaster DirectTV to use its 3D glasses system. Recently ReadD announced that they had alliances with Sony (who they have worked with in digital cinemas for a while), Samsung and JVC. That’s pretty much most of the large TV manufacturers signed up and it looks like as previously reported that the RealD 3D system will be the default system for 3D in the home.
Sep 06
Toshiba has announced availability of the BDX2000, its first hi-def disk spinner featuring Blu-ray technology and it’s first since it admitted defeat around 18 months ago and abandoned HD-DVD. Toshiba’s experience in developing HD-DVD should mean it should deliver the goods on with Blu-ray. Many of the core technologies are the similar including audio formats and video encoding. The BDX2000 offers everything you would expect from a current profile 2.0 player including 1080p/24 video, AVCHD video playback from HD cameras and camcorders, HD audio support including Dolby Tru HD and DTS HD Master Audio. The unit features a SD card slot to take pictures and that HD camera video directly. One slightly weird requirement is that in order to enjoy profile 2.0 you need to put at least a 1GB SD card into the slot. With the current price of memory it seems a little stingy that this was not included inside the machine. The player will be available from November at the price around $249, no word yet of an international release.
