Like I said in the previous posting about IFA news, you can only get the good coverage from european sites. Toshiba’s latest HD DVD showing is an ultra-slim HD DVD drive. It comes in reader as well as burner variations. This is consistent with Toshiba’s earlier IFA comments about targeting computer users as a back-door for getting HD DVD out there.
I’m not sure that I’d be super interested in making 15GB backups when my total hard drive space approaches several hundreds of gigabytes, but being able to view my discs in a room other than the one where my HDTV is located is appealing. Having this kind of thing built-in to a laptop would be a more natural fit for watching HD DVD when you’re out and about. For example, many people spend enough time on the road as part of work/business that taking one of those seasonal TV episode compilations makes a lot of sense. And after you’ve been bitten by that HD bug, then standard definition DVDs just don’t cut it any more.
