First laptop with HD-DVD ROM drive announced
Blimey – finish one HD DVD post and then another comes along. This time it is Tosh which has announced it is to be first in the world to deliver a notebook PC with an integrated HD DVD-ROM drive. No surprise there as Sanyo and NEC are hardly big names in the PC world. It makes its debut at the CEATEC exhibition in Japan next week and goes on sale in Japan in 2006 with other countries getting it soon after. The slim-type HD DVD-ROM drive, with a height of only 12.7 millimeters, has a single optical lens that can read HD DVD discs and read and write to standard DVD and CD.
Interestingly Tosh mentions the drive’s High Def TV potential saying 'With TV moving towards high definition digital broadcasts and PCs increasingly integrating advanced AV capabilities, including TV tuners, demand is emerging for high definition programming and content. Toshiba has responded to this trend by promoting the advanced imaging capabilities of the next-generation HD DVD format, and has now brought HD DVD to portable computing, the fastest growing segment of the computer market. '
