Sooner or later it will happen

! !

Must happen for commercially viability, if nowhere else then in Japan for BR recorders

One Toshiba blu-ray recorder with excellent DVD upscaling and legacy HD DVD playback please....and don't forget to include the region free backdoor

Well, Sony released VHS recorders

IMO - nope. Commerical viability will decrease with the introduction of cheaper players and any Chinese models. There is really no reason for Toshiba to enter a market with players of Sony and Panasonic taking up sizeable portions of the market.

Added - the reducing prices of the product PLUS the need to pay royalties to the BDA Group would be a bit of a disencentive to start production lines.

If I was them - i'd wait til the next generation or when BD burning becomes more cheaper.

I second that motion. Nice dream though.

+1 for me on that.

And a nice dose of "hddvduser" for his firmware's for us.

Update on this story - link thingy

Haha..just as Sony capitulated to VHS after chucking the Oroton in the dirt, so will Toshy
in releasing a blu player.

Found it here......looks remarkably simliar to EP10!!!!!

http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_9253.htm

Was out at Toshiba last week, and they are definetly going to have BR players in their computer lineup, and sounds like they will be launching a player in Japan and the US, but not sure if it will be launched in Oz