Toshiba Aiming For Blu-ray Again With A DVD Player, Please Tell Us This Is A Joke

Japanese news outlet Yomiuri Shimbun has reported that Toshiba is working on an upscaling extension to current DVD technology which will produce a DVD player that'll produce picture quality comparable to Blu-ray and the now-defunct HD DVD format. Details are minimal at the moment, but Toshiba's new high-def DVD player (for lack of a better term) should be available in the next 6 months, "relies on a newly-developed large scale integrated circuit chip to rapidly convert the stored video", and is backwards-compatible with standard DVD's. We're guessing we'll be keeping you updated on this one, just because it seems to ridiculous.

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