Internet-enabled DVD player coming from Toshiba?
by Teresa von Fuchs on July 2, 2008

Despite Blu-ray’s victory over HD, Toshiba does not seem to be accepting defeat and quietly adopting Blu-ray. The folks over at TG Daily speculate that instead Toshiba is working to enhance the image scaling capabilities of its DVD players and possibly launching an Internet-enabled players. Though no specifics have been nailed down, TG Daily based its report on the Toshiba-chaired DVD Steering Committee meeting, which approved the above DVD Download logo at its June 11 meeting.

An Internet-enabled DVD player could easily transfer videos from the Web and then burn them to a DVD and DRM restrictions could still apply. MaximumPC reported that Internet-enabled DVD players would enable easy transmissions of HD-quality video from the Web.

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