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Toshiba exec: Blu

With the ‘shock‘ announcement yesterday that Toshiba would be supporting Blu-ray with its own hardware this year, we sought some chatting time with the company’s very own Olivier van Wynedaele. A senior executive at Toshiba Europe, he’s involved with optical storage and we’ve spoken to him before about Toshiba’s DVD upscalers and HD DVD players. He’s certainly a chap who …

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Panasonic DMR

Freeview recorders are exactly like arms. When you’ve got them, and they work perfectly, you take them for granted. But get one munched off by a shark or alligator and you’re really going to miss it. The cruel vagaries of review loan periods, rather than animal attack, mean we’ve gone without a recorder for a while, and it’s actually painful. …

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