Toshiba Samsung HD DVD drive for laptops

There was plenty of talk about HD DVD
last week, and it appears at least something tangible came out of it: Toshiba Samsung Storage will start shipping samples of the world's first slimline HD DVD drive to vendors before the end of the year. The drive supports writing to all flavors of CD and DVD, but HD DVD support remains playback-only, at a whopping 1X. At least it's a start.