Toshiba (Japan)

Toshiba is one of Japan's leading technology companies, responsible for several important breakthroughs including the development of the laptop computer and DVD video. Although best known outside Japan for IT and audio-visual products, especially notebook computers and televisions, the group manufactures an extensive collection of other products ranging from mobile phones to household appliances, and also derives a substantial proportion of its revenues from electrical engineering in areas such as industrial electronics, power generation, building systems and traffic control. In recent years, Toshiba devoted considerable time and energy to developing a higher-definition successor to its original DVD format. However, its proprietary HD DVD system was quickly marginalised by Sony's competitive and more widely accepted Blu-Ray technology. The group suspended production of HD DVD systems in February 2008.

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