Toshiba introduces HD-DVD writer for mobile computers
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 2, 2006 at 3:26pm
Will they pop up in future MacBook Pros or perhaps even MacBooks? Who knows, but Toshiba’s just-announced HD-DVD writer could. It allows users to write high-definition video content, while enjoying backward compatibility with all DVD and CD formats.
Toshiba’s SD-L902A integrates a blue-violet laser diode to read and write HD-DVD-R discs and supports high-density HD-DVD-ROM discs, including high-definition movie and video images. The drive also offers super-multi functionality, with read and write capabilities for all standard DVD and CD discs.
At only 12.7 millimeters in height, the SD-L902A meets the stringent space constraints of the mobile PC environment, since the HD-DVD format has the same physical structure as standard DVD technology, according to Maciek Brzeski of the Toshiba Storage Device Division. As a result, the HD DVD writer uses an optical pick-up head with a single objective lens. With this next-generation DVD technology, mobile computer users can work with content in high-definition, while continuing to enjoy legacy DVD and CD material, he adds.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
