As far as I am concerned their wonderbread Super DVD system is all marketing BS, and that is what is rankling me. Toshiba is probably fully aware that this "faux HD" system has no chance in hell of actually equaling the quality of a properly mastered film on BD or HD DVD: yet, they insist on...
I wish Toshiba would go bankrupt and end the farce that upconverted DVD can be made to look the same or almost the same as BD or even the now deceased HD DVD system. Unfortunately, my wish has no possibility of coming true, but how happy I would be to see the newspaper headline....TOSHIBA FILES...
The point of this "new technology" is to extend the life of DVD discs and by further extension lengthen the amount of time that Toshiba continues to collect royalties on the production of DVDs. Putting this technology into a Blu-ray player defeats its intended purpose; therefore, hell will...
I don't believe that any technology that Toshiba comes up with will make a DVD look identical to a Blu-ray HD disc. No amount of upconverting is going to create a picture identical to a properly mastered film on BD, because the detail isn't there on DVD. Toshiba can upconvert all DVD all it...