Toshiba Now Shipping Laptops with HD-DVD Burning Drives

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10069

"Consumers have been able to get notebook computers for a while now with internal Blu-ray drives which could also write to blank Blu-ray disks. Notebooks were also available that would play movies on internal HD DVD drives. Information Week reports that Toshiba will begin selling in Japan this week the first notebook computer which integrates a rewriteable HD DVD optical drive. A pair of Toshiba notebooks in the Qosmio Series 2 family will include these HD DVD rewritable drives. One model will be available with a 17-inch screen featuring a 1920 x 1200 screen resolution and one with a 15.4-inch screen using a 1280 x 800 resolution."



HD-DVD burning drives? Bring 'em on! But only if the discs don't cost $15 each - I'm still amazed at how expensive 8.5 GB dual-layer DVDs are, let alone the new HD format...

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10069

"Consumers have been able to get notebook computers for a while now with internal Blu-ray drives which could also write to blank Blu-ray disks. Notebooks were also available that would play movies on internal HD DVD drives. Information Week reports that Toshiba will begin selling in Japan this week the first notebook computer which integrates a rewriteable HD DVD optical drive. A pair of Toshiba notebooks in the Qosmio Series 2 family will include these HD DVD rewritable drives. One model will be available with a 17-inch screen featuring a 1920 x 1200 screen resolution and one with a 15.4-inch screen using a 1280 x 800 resolution."



HD-DVD burning drives? Bring 'em on! But only if the discs don't cost $15 each - I'm still amazed at how expensive 8.5 GB dual-layer DVDs are, let alone the new HD format...