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We’ll apologize on our tipster’s behalf for the quality of this shot, but evidently, he wasn’t able to pass it through Toshiba’s completely mind-boggling XDE upscaling technology before forwarding it onto us. Anyway, we reckon you can get the point — the XD-E500 upconverting DVD player is filtering into stores, so those looking to make their current DVD collection look its best should probably take notice. Or not, whatever.

[Thanks, Philip]

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

Oh Toshiba, has it really come to this? After a humiliating loss to Blu-ray, Tosh just unveiled its new $150 XD-E500 DVD player. It’s no run o’ the mill DVD player mind you, this unit touts Toshiba’s new eXtended Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology — that super-duper resolution upconverting tech meant to fill the void between ubiquitous upconverting players and Blu-ray. Unfortunately, the player demonstrated offered just “subtle but noticeable sharpening of the image” when compared side-by-side (in a controlled demonstration) with an unnamed $70 upscaler — to its credit, Tosh did not try to compare its new player with an HD-capable Blu-ray machine. Still, more than twice the price for “subtle” hardly sounds like a compelling purchase to us.

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