SACD and DVD-A dead, but K2HD is HERE!!!?!!?!?

[bobsticks]

Rumor has it that HD-DVD support will be built into the upcoming service pack for Windows Vista. Whether that has any impact, who knows. Blu-ray and HD-DVD OEM drives have been out for a while now. I just don't get the sense that there's a whole lot of interest right now (no different than when DVD drives first started arriving on the market). Plus, Dell and HP already offer optional Blu-ray drives, and Sony just announced an all-in-one iMac knockoff with the option for a built-in Blu-ray recorder. Toshiba previously announced that they would add HD-DVD drives to all of their notebook models starting next year.

I heard a rumor today that a significant portion of the computers released next year will have HD-DVD drives. Again, this was an unsubstantiated report but one from someone I consider at least marginally intelligent. That would be an interesting marketing ploy and given the nature of consumer dollars spent on home theater items and the current state of the economy, maybe a wise choice on the part of Toshiba/Microsoft.

[Woochifer]

I heard a rumor today that a significant portion of the computers released next year will have HD-DVD drives. Again, this was an unsubstantiated report but one from someone I consider at least marginally intelligent. That would be an interesting marketing ploy and given the nature of consumer dollars spent on home theater items and the current state of the economy, maybe a wise choice on the part of Toshiba/Microsoft.

It's no rumor. Toshiba has already announced that all of their laptop computers will come with HD-DVD drives starting sometime next year. It's an interesting marketing push, but I'm not sure how much of an effect this will have on the format war.