[kinoxi]

Toshiba and Canon will not license the technology to other manufacturers

I hope this changes. The quality of the last few Toshiba products that I have purchased is sorely lacking.

[RangerM]

Apparently, they haven't learned what happened to Sony's Betamax.

(Sidenote) I have been generally happy with the Toshiba products I have bought over the years, but wasn't there some deal where technology was (illegally?) sold to the Russians back during the Cold War?