Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. ("Toshiba") announced the expansion of its line of Portable DVD players with the introduction of two new models offering a multitude of value-added features, such as, DivX playback capabilities, memory card slots and up to 4 hour rechargeable batteries. With screen sizes ranging from 7" to 9" diagonally measured, Toshiba's portable line looks to complement an active, on-the-go lifestyle, in addition to offering the most advanced digital audio and video technologies.

Toshiba Japan has a fancy new portable DVD player, the SD-P2800. As most portable players, this has an LCD display with a resolution of 800x480, the angle of visibility is 170 degrees, so you can watch it with a whole bunch of friends and you don’t even have to sit too close. As you would expect it also plays DVD-R/RW and CD/ CDRW and all the usual varieties of formats. Where it sets itself apart is the functionality to play 14bit/108MHz video DAC, so the picture conversion is of very high quality. It’s also the only machine with a four-in-one memory card slot for SD card, MMC, Memory stick and XD picture card. Throw in a TV and FM tuner, and you have a unique portable DVD player from Toshiba.

Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. was honored with four CES Innovations 2005 Design and Engineering Showcase Awards. The Best of Innovations Award in the Mobile/Vehicle Electronics Audio/Video category was assigned to the SD-P2700 Toshiba Portable DVD Player.