Toshiba XDE at IFA 2008

Toshiba releases this new DVD player with Cell processor based HD upscaling technology. In this video I wonder though why Toshiba doesn’t at least support playback of HD video formats such as DivX HD, H264 HD and WMV HD. Since a single layer DVD can hold a 2 hour 720p movie in those formats and a dual layer DVD can hold 2 hours at 1080p in those formats. Toshiba, I think, should also build an Ethernet port into their players to support up to HD quality video-on-demand services.

You can watch this video in DivX HD 720p quality at http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/toshiba-xde/