Something Is Amiss: Toshiba makes shaky showing of their BR units at IFA

Now this is interesting: It seems perhaps Toshiba isn’t totally rooting for Blu-Ray HD disc technology, at least based on their reportedly shaky showing at IFA of their new Blu-Ray units.

Here’s a quote from Engadget HD about their experience with Toshiba and their Blu-Ray players once approaching their booth for a demo:

In reality, when we finally found the lone BDX2000, the LCD it was plugged into was off, while numerous DVD players and upscaling tech demos littered the surrounding booth area. Once we got a rep to turn it on for us, the Blu-ray player seemed to work just fine, as should be expected. The new Blu-ray equipped P500, however, wasn’t so successful: our colleagues at Engadget Spanish watched an attempted Blu-ray showing on the laptop go awry, and by the time we’d dropped by the booth, any Blu-ray models of the P500 had been pulled from the show floor due to crashiness. In talking with a Toshiba rep, it’s clear that the company hasn’t abandoned its ideas of internet distribution and other alternatives to the once rival format of Blu-ray.

It appears Toshiba isn’t putting their “all” into support for the format (since it beat their HD-DVD, one could hardly blame them), but hopefully they’ll get it straightened out before launch.