My hundredth birthday will fall on a Tuesday. I learned that from the Toshiba SV-771 Diomage Super VHS Hi-Fi VCR. As a bonus, Toshiba builds in on this model a near-perpetual calendar that goes ...

The race to set the industry standard for high-definition DVDs swept into Japan’s stores Friday as Toshiba put on sale its first next-generation player. Supporters of the HD DVD format pushed by ...

Last summer, Toshiba decided to abandon their self-developed HD-DVD format and to go Blu-ray instead. Soon after, the company started rolling out a few Blu-ray devices here and there, but today ...

Japanese electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have abandoned their efforts to develop a single format for the next generation of DVDs, pitting the two rivals against each other in the battle for ...

The battle for the next generation of high definition video formats is often portrayed as this generation's VHS versus Beta, but there is one aspect to the struggle that was not present in the old ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp. has slashed its sales target for high definition DVD players and recorders after disappointing sales in the U.S., putting a damper on prospects for one of its ...

Toshiba rolled out a prototype of its next HD DVD player at CEATEC in Japan, and from the looks of it, it’s about half the height of Toshiba’s first outing into the HD DVD player world, the HD-A1. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I bought my first DVD player – a Samsung – in 1998, when they first went on sale in Europe. It was ousted in ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba on Friday started rolling out its high-definition DVD players in Japan, becoming the first company to offer next-generation optical disc players worldwide. Toshiba ...