Monday, June 4, 2007
HD-DVD Burning Finally Coming from Toshiba
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
"Toshiba releases a slim new HD DVD-RW drive for notebooks at Taiwan’s Computex as they fight with Sony’s Blu-ray to become the dominant movie and data standard. Your next notebook might not come with a Blu-ray or HD DVD burner, instead having a regular DVD-RW drive instead, but it’s likely that Blu-ray and HD DVD burners will not only soon be an option, but a standard feature for road warriors. That’s because Toshiba’s new slim HD DVD-RW drive, the SD-L912A, is able to read and record HD DVD disks, DVDs and CDs, and is naturally squarely aimed at the mobility market, giving consumers the ability to store 30Gb of data on dual layer HD DVD discs, or transfer their high-definition recordings from TV or HD camcorders to a blank HD DVD disc with enough space to store it."
Although I have to admit I haven't had a pressing need to burn 30 GB of data to a DVD (heck, 8.5 GB dual-layer media is still expensive), it's great to see Toshiba moving forward on this - even if they're about a year behind Blu-ray. Are you waiting for HD-DVD burning?
Although I have to admit I haven't had a pressing need to burn 30 GB of data to a DVD (heck, 8.5 GB dual-layer media is still expensive), it's great to see Toshiba moving forward on this - even if they're about a year behind Blu-ray. Are you waiting for HD-DVD burning?
