Qosmio G30
Copyright © 2006 Toshiba Corporation. All rights reserved.
Qosmio – bringing your digital worlds together
Born of the convergence of the AV and PC worlds, the Qosmio G30
is your 4-in-1 solution for digital entertainment and mobile computing
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Qosmio – your 4-in-1 solution for
digital entertainment and mobile computing
It´s an LCD television
It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
It´s a virtual surround sound system
It´s a powerful and versatile PC
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It´s an LCD television
• With the built-in hybrid TV Tuner (analogue
and digital (DVB-T) TV tuner), you can record
and watch your favourite TV shows at the
touch of a button.
• The Qosmio G30 offers a 17-inch widescreen
Toshiba TruBrite® display delivering vivid
images like you have never seen before.
• Thanks to “HD to go” from Toshiba, the new
Qosmio G30 offers High Definition quality
content on the move.
• The powerful video processing capabilities of
the QosmioEngine deliver a high-quality
visual experience.
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Hybrid analogue and digital (DVB-T) TV Tuner
The integrated analogue and digital TV Tuner
supports worldwide TV broadcasting formats
enhancing your TV experience on the move.
Analogue or
DVB-T via roof
antenna*
STB
Digital via STB (Set Top Box) and satellite*
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Analogue through
cable (provider)*
DVB-T with small
mobile antenna*
*dependent on availibility in European countries
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With Toshiba TruBrite® images are brought to life
The 17-inch Toshiba TruBrite® WXGA+ display
offers a brightness of 480 cd/m2 and colour
saturation comparable to that of LCD television.
The display will astound you with great colour
depth, wide viewing angles and antiglare
technology to deflect outside light.
without TruBrite®
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with TruBrite®
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Toshiba HD to go
Toshiba’s innovative combination of
powerful performance
advanced graphics and
outstanding widescreen technology
delivers the ultimate thrill of mobile
High Definition viewing.
“HD to go” proposition:
• Ensuring smooth playback
Experience video images
so vibrant and alive
that they seem almost tangible.
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of WMV HD content
• Widescreen display
• 720p resolution (minimum)
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Toshiba QosmioEngine
At the heart of the product is the
QosmioEngine , a superlative video
processor delivering a high-quality
visual experience for TV, 3D gaming,
viewing multimedia content, DVD
movies and more.
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Qosmio – your 4-in-1 solution for
digital entertainment and mobile computing
It´s an LCD television
It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
It´s a virtual surround sound system
It´s a powerful and versatile PC
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It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
• Qosmio delivers on the promise of simplicity with
Toshiba’s QosmioPlayer for instant-on entertainment.
• The G30‘s intuitive control panel (AV buttons) , puts
digital entertainment at your fingertips.
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center
Edition 2005 delivers a powerful yet familiar
way to enjoy all of your digital entertainment.
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It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
1. QosmioPlayer TV functionality:
This intuitive graphical interface bypasses
the Windows® operating system when
booting to offer quick and easy TV and digital
entertainment at the touch of a button.
Even when the Qosmio unit is off, TV can be
quickly accessed via the AV Control Buttons
on the system or the Remote Control.
2. QosmioPlayer TV recording:
You can record TV programs via the
QosmioPlayer and save up to
maximum 50 files (maximum
recording capacity: 5 GB)*.
*dependent on recording quality and length
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QosmioPlayer (TV) supports analogue TV only
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It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
3. QosmioPlayer Time-shifting:
Pausing a TV broadcast to resume later (Pause TV)
This function enables you to pause a TV broadcast (Pause
TV) and resume viewing at a later, more convenient time, by
storing the TV broadcast temporarily on the HDD.
Playing a TV program currently being recorded (Chase Play)
You can begin playback from the beginning of a program
currently being recorded (no need to wait for the end of
recording to begin playback).
Audio/video buttons on the Qosmio G30
Thanks to the intuitive control panel, the Qosmio G30 puts TV,
video and audio entertainment at your fingertips.
TV
Play /
Pause
CD/DVD
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STOP
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Previous Next
Track
REC
Video
Brightness
down / up DOLBY Out
QosmioPlayer (TV) supports analogue TV only
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Bundled with Microsoft® Windows® XP Media
Center Edition 2005
• Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
enables you to enjoy the best in home
entertainment, personal productivity, and
creativity on your Qosmio G30 in an easy,
complete, and connected way.
• With Media Center Edition 2005, you can:
 Browse the Web
 Play your favourite PC games
 e-mail and instant message your
friends
 Install and use programs designed
for Windows® XP
 Display Photos
 play Music
 Record TV
 Watch Movies
 Create Home videos
 Listen Radio
 World of applications and services
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Qosmio – your 4-in-1 solution for
digital entertainment and mobile computing
It´s an LCD television
It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
It´s a virtual surround sound system
It´s a powerful and versatile PC
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It´s a virtual surround system
• Industry-leading Harman Kardon®
speakers with new bass-reflex
speaker technology.
• The Qosmio G30 is the first
1-bit digital amplifier integrated
notebook in the world.
• S/PDIF optical 5.1 surround
connection to digital audio home
entertainment systems.
• The Qosmio G30 is the first
True Dolby® Home Theater™
surround sound notebook in the
world.
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It´s a virtual surround system
• The Qosmio G30 features Harman Kardon®
stereo speakers with new bass-reflex speaker
technology offering enhanced sound quality by
allowing greater bass amplification and clarity.
• For the first time, the 1-bit digital amplifier
technology is integrated in a notebook PC. This
technology offers an ultra-high-speed sampling
rate, allowing the listener to hear instrumental
nuances and performance subtleties like never
before.
• The S/PDIF port provides you with an optical
digital connection to your digital audio home
entertainment system without a conversion to
analogue. This results in an impressively higher
quality of sound.
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It´s a virtual surround system
True Dolby ® Home Theater™ surround sound experience
• The Dolby® Home Theater™ technology transforms the
Qosmio G30 into an entertainment center with true hometheater-quality surround sound capabilities, perfect for
seamless integration with other consumer electronics.
• Dolby® Home Theater™ on the G30 delivers high-quality
audio for a richer, more natural, and engaging listening
experience:
- flexibility to choose your surround sound playback:
via headphones, the integrated stereo speakers, or
up to seven external speakers
- ideal for home networking entertainment devices
- transforms stereo content into five full channels for
vivid surround sound create DVDs with Dolby Digital
Sound
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Dolby® Home Theater™
True home-theater surround sound experience
True 5.1 surround sound experience from all content:
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MP3
CD
Radio
TV and movies
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Qosmio – your 4-in-1 solution for
digital entertainment and mobile computing
It´s an LCD television
It´s an HDD/DVD recorder
It´s a virtual surround sound system
It´s a powerful and versatile PC
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It´s a powerful and versatile PC
• Latest Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology featuring powerful
dual-core processing
• Dual hard disk drive functionality with RAID support to choose
more storage capacity or real-time hard disk mirroring for
increased data security
• Latest NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go7600 graphics for leading
performance and powerful digital entertainement on the move
• Seamless connectivity and expandability
i.LINK® (IEEE 1394) I 6-in-1 Bridge Media slot I International 56 Kbps V.90 modem
(V.92 ready) I GigaBit LAN port I 4 x USB 2.0 ports I Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g I
Bluetooth® I ExpressCard slot I
• Wide range of pre-installed software
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Thrilling personalised entertainment on the move
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The Qosmio G30
enables more thrilling
entertainment on the
move.
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Intel® Centrino® Duo
Mobile Technology
takes the thrill of
entertainment on the
move to the next
level.
This revolutionary step in
mobile performance
allows you to do more of
the things you love where
and when you want to.
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Toshiba RAID support
The Qosmio G30 offers you dual hard disk drive functionality with RAID-0 and RAID-1
support offering more HDD space for data backup or protection against data loss
since all data is duplicated and saved on two drives.
Summary of features and benefits
• RAID-1 supported
– Customer can continue computing with zero downtime even when one of the hard
drives is crushed (reliable computing by RAID-1 technology).
• Hard drive hot plug is supported
– Hot insertion/extraction of the select bay hard drive is still supported on the RAID-1
system as same as stand alone configuration.
• Hard drive password is supported
– Hard drive password is still supported on the RAID system when inserting the
select bay hard drive on Windows running state as same as stand alone
configuration.
• Hot reconfiguration is supported
– Customer can change the configuration status from/to stand alone to/from RAID-1
mutually by using RAID utility on Windows.
• Easy access to RAID status icon on task tray
– Easy to open the RAID utility and to check/change the status of RAID configuration.
• Alarm by buzzer and pop up message
– The RAID system notifies users by buzzer and pop up message when one of the
two hard drives has trouble (hardware crush or one of two hard drives is extracted).
* Toshiba RAID support requires second HDD
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NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7600 graphics
The NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7600 graphics with
256 MB DDR2 RAM offer unparalled video
viewing and support for the latest 3D games
and applications.
1. High definition graphics –
supporting the latest games
2. High definition video –
NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
3. Extended battery life –
NVIDIA PowerMizer 6.0
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Easy expansion and connectivity
• 6-in-1 Bridge Media slot
• 4 x USB ports
• i.LINK® (IEEE 1394)
• PC Card slot
• Fast PCI ExpressCard slot
• Bluetooth®
• Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g
• GigaBit Ethernet LAN port
• International 56 Kbps V.90 modem (V.92 ready)
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All-in-one convenience
• Microsoft Office OneNote* 2003™
for quick and easy note-taking and organisation
• Sonic RecordNow!
Sonic RecordNow! is the easiest way to burn and copy
CDs/DVDs and share data
• InterVideo® WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum
WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum is a new generation of
DVD creation software. A truly integrated product,
WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum is the easiest and fastest
DVD-making program there is, allowing you to create
high-quality DVDs in a fraction of the time taken by
other similar software
• Windows Movie Maker 2
Windows Movie Maker 2 makes home movie-making
fun and easy. You can create, edit, and share your
movies through a few simple actions.
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Bundled with Toshiba
Toshiba ConfigFree allows users to easily set up a network connection, troubleshoot
connectivity problems, capture a complete set of location settings for future use and
create an ad hoc network for collaboration.
...easy
to find
...easy
to connect
Wireless LAN
networks using an
intuitive interface
to wired and wireless
networks
...easy
to define
settings using profiles
New version v5.7
...easy
automatically
switch
between LAN /
WLAN / WWAN
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The world’s smartest entertainment series
with TV, audio, HDD/DVD recorder and PC
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