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Are you completely sick and tired of hearing about the constant battle between what companies are supporting Blu-ray or HD-DVD? Well, even though toshiba is decidedly HD-DVD, they have just released two DVD or HDD players. In interesting part (and a disadvantage to some) is that they have no support for either Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

The two models are named the RD-S600 and the RS-S300. So what do they offer instead of next-gen DVD tech? They offer huge hard drives. The 600 and the 300 offer 600GB and 300GB drives, respectively. They have DVD burners, an HDMI port, and and upscale your content to 720p/1080i video. No price released yet, but those hard drives won’t be cheap. — Nik Gomez

2 new Toshiba media recorders [Akihabara news]

Many people these days are trying to be unique and making their houses “contemporaryâ€? in ways that people have never done (there is a house that has a glass bottom pool for a roof). If you’re one of these people, or you want to feel like you’re going contemporary, maybe you should pray that the Zgiga TV 2 leaves the concept stage and comes into production. This structure is a mix of an LCD display and a BluRay/HD-DVD player. Since it’s not flush with the wall, you have a ledge on top of the TV to place those porcelain dolls you seem to have forgotten about in your closet. Having a BluRay/HD-DVD player with touch sensitive control panel and an LCD display attached is a really cool concept; now what’s up with the 2 extra boxes. Maybe the name Zgiga TV 2 means TV and 2 random boxes. Whatever, this is supposed to be “contemporary,â€? so the designers could basically do whatever they want with it. Obviously the designers know what the critics like because the Zgiga TV 2 just won a red dot online award in the Design Concept category. — Nick Rice

qixen-p design studio [via SlashGear]