Toshiba has announced the world's first slim
HD DVD drive for
notebook PCs that can read and write to HD
DVD, standard DVD and
CD discs .
The SD-L902A drive integrates a blue-violet laser diode that can read and write to HD
DVD-R discs, as well as offering support for high-density HD DVD-ROM discs, including high definition
movie and
video images. And to make life easy, it's got all the functionality of a super multi-drive, with high-speed read and write to all standard DVD and CD format discs. At only 12.7mm in height, it meets the space specifications for slim drives integrated into notebook PCs (helped by HD DVD discs being of similar size to standard DVDs) .
Toshiba will showcase the drive in
Japan this week.
Price and
UK availability yet to be confirmed.