Toshiba Wins Four International CES Innovations 2003 Design And Engineering Showcase Awards

3-Feb-03

With a legacy of innovative technology and a commitment to developing high-quality products, Toshiba announced that the Toshiba Cinema SeriesÆ 57HLX82 57-inch LCoS projection TV was awarded the 2003 Best of Innovations award in the video category. In addition, three other Toshiba products have been selected as winners of the Innovations 2003 Design and Engineering Showcase Awards. The chosen products include the TDP-MT8U High-Definition DLPô Home Theater Projector, the SD-P2000 Portable DVD Player, and the RD-X2 DVD Recorder. The 2003 Innovations Awards program recognizes products that exhibit excellence in design and engineering at the International CES. Now in its sixth year, the Innovations 2003 Best of Innovations award is given to the most highly honored products in their category. Products are judged by a panel of prominent industry designers, engineers, and journalists on criteria including user value, aesthetics, contribution to quality of life, and innovative qualities.57HLX82 High-Definition 1080p LCoS Projection TelevisionBy combining its rich engineering tradition with many of the key technologies that have made Toshiba's Cinema Series line a leader in projection television and HDTV, Toshiba has created a new reference for digital display with the LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) projection television. Featuring three 1080p LCoS chips, the 57HLX82 displays an image with over two times the resolution of other digital displays on the market.TDP-MT8U High-Definition DLP Home Theater ProjectorToshiba has raised the bar in front projection with the MT8, combining its legacy in superior engineering quality and experience in rear projection to design a best-of-breed front projector that will deliver vivid pictures and cinema-style impact. Toshiba's engineers have utilized all of the newest and best components available to create this flagship model, including a second-generation, high-brightness/high-contrast HD2 DLP chip from Texas Instruments, a new all-glass, high-focus lens system from renowned German manufacturer Carl Zeiss, and Faroudja's new Directional Correlational Deinterlacing Plus (DCDi+).SD-P2000 Portable DVD PlayerThe Toshiba SD-P2000 is the industry's only portable DVD-Video/Audio player with progressive scan output and a high-resolution widescreen 8.9-inch TFT LCD display. The SD-P2000 offers high-performance features and capabilities usually only found on the most sophisticated full-sized DVD players, displaying images on an 8.9-inch widescreen, active matrix screen. The 16:9 Polysilicon TFT display with a 614,000-pixel resolution is perfect for viewing standard, letterbox, and anamorphic DVD movies, making the Toshiba SD-P2000 a portable theater that permits users to enjoy high-quality DVD movies anytime, anywhere.RD-X2 DVD RecorderThe RD-X2 marks a revolutionary step in DVD technology, allowing users to record and play back their favorite videos in MPEG-2 digital video resolution. With the industry's first DVD-R/DVD-RAM/hard disk drive (HDD) combination recorder featuring an 80 GB storage for recording and editing, plus the compatibility of DVD-R and the versatility of rewritable DVD-RAM recording, the Toshiba RD-X2 continues to set the standard in digital home video recording and archiving. The unit's time-shift capabilities and immensity of HDD data space provides users with virtually unlimited recording of broadcast programming. In addition, a host of advanced title creation and program editing features lets users edit videos, home movies, or other programs, and create a customized video library of recorded content.For more information about Toshiba America Consumer Products, Inc., visit www.toshiba.com/tacp.

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