Toshiba to launch Blu-ray player

Toshiba will be launching a Blu-ray player by the end of the year. Details are scant, but the model number is said to be BD 18.

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interview with Atsutoshi Nishida, Toshiba’s chief executive, that’s kind of interesting for what it doesn’t say. The article’s headline is “Toshiba’s Plan for Life After HD DVD” and the Q&A appears in the “Boss Talk” column, which seems to put executives in a warm seat rather than a hot seat. By that I mean there are a couple of hard-hitting questions (“Isn’t the loss of the format war a blow to Toshiba’s strategy?), but after you’re through with the piece, you get the feeling that the interviewer, Yukari Iwatani Kane, really let Mr. Nishida off the hook.
via: news.cnet.com