Toshiba will launch HD DVD readers to the US in March 2006

Toshiba announced on January 4 that Toshiba planned to officially sell HD DVD players in the US in early March 2006. So Toshiba will be the first company to launch HD DVD reader into the US market, while from December 2005 it sold this reader in Japan.

It seems that Toshiba's HD DVD format has fallen to Sony's Bluray DVD format, but the battle is still going indefinitely because there are still HD DVD fans. Yoshihiro Matsumoto, president of Toshiba's North American consumer product, made sure of the pillar at the 2006 CES High-Tech Expo that: ' HD DVD format has opened up the future for digital video. high definition. HD DVD will give customers a clear view of DVD '.

Toshiba is still working closely with NEC to support the HD DVD format, while Sony and Panasonic have increasingly attracted many other big companies to stand by their standard Blu-ray DVD format.

In the next March, Toshiba will launch the US two HD DVD reader models, the HD-XA1, for $ 799, and HD-A1 for $ 499. These two models have been sold in Japan in early December 2005.

According to the latest news released by Reuters from CES 2006, Sony has just announced that it will launch a Blu-ray DVD player into the US market in early summer 2006, around June this year.

THIEN TRANG