Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Toshiba Corp. said it would deliver the world's first PC able to read HD DVD discs by early next year.
The PC will be equipped with a slim, read-only HD DVD drive produced by Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology, a joint venture between Japan's second-largest electronics conglomerate and South Korea's Samsung Electronics.
In addition to content in the high-definition HD DVD format, the new PC will also allow consumers to both read and write to conventional DVD and CD discs.
A Toshiba spokeswoman said she expected several movie titles in the HD DVD format to be released in Japan by the end of this year and the availability of HD DVD content to increase as the HD DVD player market takes off in earnest from next spring.
Intel and Microsoft have recently cast their vote to support the HD DVD format over the blu-ray format.
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