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Toshiba announces slim HD DVD writer for notebook PCs

Written by James Delahunty @ 04 Jun 2007 6:58 User comments (5)

Toshiba announces slim HD DVD writer for notebook PCs

Toshiba Corp. has announced its new slim HD DVD-RW drive for notebook PCs that can read and write and rewrite to HD DVD-RW discs, and read and write to HD DVD-R discs and to standard DVD and CD discs. The new SD-L912A makes it possible to backup the large capacities of PC hard drives to the reusable format of HD DVD-RW discs, and store data-rich HD digital content. The drive's ability to rewrite to HD DVD-RW also opens the way to a wide range of applications involving storage and rewriting of large volumes of data.
The new product also supports high speed read and write for standard DVD and CD discs, and the complete library of different DVD and CD formats. The new drive is compliant with the EU RoHS 3 directive on environmentally hazardous substances, which came into force in July 2006. Toshiba will feature the new drive at the Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan Corporation booth (booth: B1234) at Computex 2007, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from June 5 to 9.



Sample shipments of the new drive are scheduled to start next month.

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5 user comments

14.6.2007 22:25

SOunds awesome

24.6.2007 23:37

Sounds good. I would like to see some test results on how successful this drive burns at.

34.6.2007 23:48

any idea on the price?

45.6.2007 03:06
hughjars
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Where are the PC drives? When are they coming & for how much?

They're the question I want answered.

Still, it's nice to see HD DVD -rw burning finally make it's appearance (they had had trouble bringing this to market so I hear).

523.7.2007 21:23

At least progress is being made.

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