Toshiba announces ultra-slim HD DVD PC drive

[The News Bot]

Toshiba has announced the world’s first slim HD DVD drive for notebook PCs, able to read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs. The SD-L902A will begin shipping before the end of the year. At only 12.7 millimeters in height, the SD-L902A integrates a blue-violet laser diode that can read and write to [...]
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[meansizzler]

The Toshiba G30 alreadys ships with a HD-DVD Drive, probably this model.., anyway if your looking to get a PC Version then get the XBox 360 HD-DVD Drive in November if it does not work Via USB then maybe removing the drive will work and it will probably be a SATA Drive..

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by meansizzler

The Toshiba G30 alreadys ships with a HD-DVD Drive, probably this model..

The G30 ships with a combi HD DVD-ROM & DVD-/+R(W) (DL) drive. Likewise so do the Acer and HP models. This new drive adds HD DVD-R(W) writing.

[meansizzler]

Originally Posted by Rasczak

The G30 ships with a combi HD DVD-ROM & DVD-/+R(W) (DL) drive. Likewise so do the Acer and HP models. This new drive adds HD DVD-R(W) writing.

I missed the part about the writing, shame ot see that we will see two drives ot market, both a read and write drive, where as with blue ray one drive does it all...

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by meansizzler

I missed the part about the writing, shame ot see that we will see two drives ot market, both a read and write drive, where as with blue ray one drive does it all...

We will presumably be seeing BD-ROM drives in the not to distant future - they obviously exist as they are incorporated into the PS3 and Samsung BDP1000 (not to mention the other upcoming BluRay machines).