HDTV quality DVD Player
HDTV quality DVD Player refers to an upcoming line of DVD players developed by Toshiba, with alleged High-definition playback quality.
History
In May 2008 Toshiba announced the technology, which is scheduled to reach the market by the end of 2008. The announcements came following the company's discontinuation of the HD DVD-format in February 2008. The New player is designed to replay existing SDTV DVD-discs in HDTV-quality or alike and will compete with the leading high-definition disc-storage format, Blu-ray.
August 18, 2008, Toshiba officially announced XD-E500 DVD player featuring XDE, or “eXtended Detail Enhancement” technology. In addition to providing upconversion from SDTV 480i or 480p up to 1080p 24Hz, XDE offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that allow for greater detail, more vivid colors and stronger contrast.
General
The storage capacity of the main competing format, Blu-ray Disc, is more than 5 times that of DVD. Blu-ray is therefore capable of rendering movies at 1080p-screen resolution, or 2 million pixels, while the DVD-format is capable of displaying 350,000 pixels at 480p or 576p screen resolution. To overcome the disadvantage, Toshiba's new DVD-technology uses LSI to add quality and fidelity to the displayed image. However, this is not actually from the DVD and is generated by the player itself and what it "thinks" it should look like. As such, it is still not an actual HD image, or, as reviewers have noted, comparable to Blu-ray Disc quality.
See also
- Super-resolution
External links
- Toshiba announced Full-Hivision picture long play DVD recorder on May 15, 2008 in Japanese
- By MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 technology, on single layer DVD media (-R/RW/-RAM）4.7G Byte, for instance, approx 2 hours recording is expected, in Japanese.
- 1080p Upscaling DVD Player DVP-NS700H/x;Sony
- TOSHIBA "BREATHES NEW LIFE" INTO DVD WITH XDE TECHNOLOGY;Toshiba
- http://www.toshibaxde.com/