Toshiba Qosmio G45-AV690 boasts first US laptop HD DVD-R/RW drive
by Paul Miller 
posted Jan 6th 2008 at 2:48PM
Toshiba's done a little bit with HD DVD burners in its laptops in the past, but the Qosmio G45-AV690 looks to be the first to hit the States with a HD DVD-R/RW drive. The rest of it is typical Qosmio excess, with a 17-inch 1920 x 1200 display, HDMI out, 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo T9300 processor, 3GB of RAM, dual 160GB SATA drives, an external HDTV tuner and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 512MB of RAM. The laptop should be available soon for the low low price of $3,200.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
aaron @ Jan 6th 2008 2:58PM
Poor Toshiba...
kingofwale @ Jan 6th 2008 3:02PM
What is a HD DVD player?
silverblackvoid @ Jan 6th 2008 3:21PM
apparently you took the "ignorance is bliss" phrase too literally.
Bender Bending Rodriguez @ Jan 6th 2008 3:35PM
HD DVD is a type of high definition optical media that lost to Blu-ray in the year 2008 after Warner through its support completely into the Blu-ray camp. Compare with BetaMAX.
...at least that is how history will remember it. :-D
hothotdisco @ Jan 6th 2008 3:48PM
Note to Toshiba: Stop putting your crappy HD-DVD players in your laptops because you have already lost the format war and you are jacking up the prices unnecessarily for something no one wants.
Ruben @ Jan 6th 2008 4:07PM
Even though HD-DVD no doubt lost the movie format war, they can still put up a fight in the data side.
Its just too bad blu-ray is far more abundant and popular with their burnable media and drives. If they at least wanted to exist, that is something they should have been aware of and something they should have capitalized on. I mean, it would make sense with Microsofts backing, which would allow software and media to be distributed on HD-DVD, which of course could include games (Games for Windows).
They dug their own grave. They deserve to lose.
SimbaDogg @ Jan 6th 2008 6:58PM
seriously...no
why would anyone even think TWICE about equipping their pc/lappy w/ an hd dvd recorder. Again, time for a lil simile action: it'd be like after sony lost the betamax/vhs player war, they decided to come out w/ a betamax recorder for anyone that wants to record...when vhs recorders had already been out for some time.
no thank you, i'd rather stick to a blu ray burner that would happen to play in my ps3, pc blu ray drive, and all my other friends that dont have the "dead technology"