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"Consumers have embraced the DVD format and have invested in large libraries of their favourite movies," says Francois Spina, AV Product Manager – DVD at Toshiba Australia. "Now, the Toshiba XD-E500 allows them to experience their existing DVD library and the tens of thousands of DVD titles in enhanced detail and richer colour at near HD picture quality with the Toshiba price and quality promise."

The XD-E500 offers consumers the ability to customise their viewing experience to their taste with its three picture mode settings - sharp, colour and contrast.

Sharp Mode offers enhanced detail that is one step closer to HD. Edges are sharper and details in movies are more visible. Unlike traditional sharpness control, XDE analyses the picture and adds edge enhancement where it's needed.

Colour Mode makes the colours of nature stand out with improved richness. Blues and greens are more vivid and lifelike. This mode combines the improvement in colour with the detail enhancement of Sharp Mode and is ideal for outdoor scenes.

Contrast Mode is designed to make darker scenes more visible without the typical "washing out" that can occur with traditional contrast adjustment. Recommended for dark scenes where detail may be difficult to notice, Contrast Mode is also combined with Sharp Mode to provide a clearer viewing experience.

Other features include support for PAL progressive scan playback and offers DVD, DVD-R/-RW, CD/ CD-R/-RW, Video-CD, SVCD, CD-DA and HDMI compatibility. It is compatible with Toshiba's REGZA-Link (HDMI CEC), and also includes component video and composite video outputs, coaxial and optical digital outputs and two channel audio.  JPEG, DivX, MP3 & WMA support is also included.

RRP
$199