Toshiba announce first Blu-ray player

[Muad'Dib]

We all knew it was a just matter of when. Its like hell just froze over.

Toshiba America Consumer Products announced today its first Blu-ray player, model BDX2000. It supports BD-Live (Profile 2.0), 1080p video and DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD. It also features Regza-Link function, an SD card slot, and AVCHD playback (but no streaming video of any kind is mentioned). It will be available in November, with an MSRP of $249.99.

"Toshiba is a technology leader in high definition products," said Jodi Sally, Vice President of Marketing, Digital A/V Group. "From listening to our consumers we know they demand access to full high definition content. With the introduction of our BDX2000 we are offering consumers what they want with a breath-taking HD viewing experience to meet the needs of today's home theater."

The European version will have the model number BDX2000KE will have a list price of €269. Availability will be in December 2009 or January 2010, because the first production run will go to North America to cover the holidays shopping season.

SOUCE: Blu-ray.com

[Smackos]

It'll be interesting they'll be able to catch up with the other CE's out there, some of the players already available in that price range are very good. You can already see manufacturers trying to distinguish themselves from each other at the moment with things like the wall mountable LG player etc. It's going to take a fair bit for Toshiba to gain much traction to start with.