Toshiba has no love for Blu-ray

It has been more than a year since HD-DVD's demise, but it seems Toshiba is still not in a hurry to adopt the rival Blu-ray format. The company's latest RD-304K and RD-E1004K DVD and harddisk video recorder are yet another proof of this lethargy. Nevertheless, the whopping 1TB RD-E1004K is priced attractively at US$670 according to tech site Akihabara News. For the price, users can record up to 129 hours of HD footage from a barrage of onboard digital TV tuners. The 320GB RD-304K, meanwhile, clocks a more humble 41 hours, though pricing has yet to be announced. Both kits are scheduled for launch from August and will retail only in the Japanese domestic market.

Via Akihabara News

Microsoft dishing out ads on Xbox Live?

Microsoft may be slipping some non-gaming ad banners onto your Xbox console dashboard soon. This was suggested by its director of the company's advertising business group. According to Sean Alexandar, the Redmond software giant is planning to introduce its Adobe Flash-like Silverlight technology to Xbox Live within the year. This will enable companies to roll out interactive ads on its gaming platform that are identical appearance-wise with their current Web browser-based counterparts.

While this is going to ring in more revenue for Microsoft, we're not exactly convinced that it's a feature which Xbox Live subscribers will embrace wholeheartedly. After all, its Gold members are paying good money for their online gaming fix plus multimedia content downloads and aren't going to be pleased with commercial spam like miracle diet pills and credit card promotions.

Via Kotaku

Rumor: PS3 Slim to be manufactured in July?

We had a feeling we'd soon be hearing more on the rumored PS3 Slim, and sure enough, some enticing tidbits have hit the blogosphere. On Tuesday, several sites picked up on a report by Chinese-language site Economic Daily News (UDN.com) that Sony has signed manufacturing agreements with two Taiwanese-based companies, Foxconn and Pegatron, to build the new, slimmed-down version of the PS3 in July.

We've looked at a rather poorly translated version of the story and it's very hard to tell from what we read what the exact details are, but both Joystiq Japan and Engadget China have apparently provided their sister sites in the U.S. with a better translation (they do note that the information is based on anonymous sources, so take this all as rumor, not fact).
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