Hot on the heels of all this
last minute, pre-CES HD DVD-related
action is the SD-H903A, which Toshiba touts as "the world's first dedicated PC-based
HD DVD burner" that writes "to all main optical discs." Aside from the obvious (albeit expected) hand-to-the-face to BD-Rs in that last claim, the burner does manage to write nicely to
HD DVD-R (single and dual-layer at a measly 1x),
DVD +/- R, DVD-RAM, DVD +/- RW, CD-R, and CD-RW. Additionally, it'll include an 8MB buffer, and if all goes well,
should play back all your precious HD DVD titles without
complication. While we've no idea how much coinage will be required to pick this (admittedly sluggish) drive up, sample shipments are scheduled to take off this month, and we should get a good look at just what it's capable of at next week's CES.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ben @ Jan 5th 2007 8:24AM
1x? rofl.
icepop4who @ Jan 5th 2007 9:13AM
1x... how much data/sec is that?
two writer drives of the opposing format announced on the same day. wicked.
Mark Nelson @ Jan 5th 2007 9:31AM
Well, if its $199, its not that bad. Certainly better than a simple HD DVD reader.
EatingPie @ Jan 5th 2007 11:00AM
1x AND 15GB only.
More than half my HD content (Cable Caps) won't even fit in 15GB. Thanks Toshiba. Way to go. :(
-Pie
Master Jedi Dan @ Jan 5th 2007 11:49AM
I don't trust Toshiba's hardware.
Gina @ Jan 5th 2007 2:11PM
Yea for 199.00 dollars it looks and sounds like it is well worth the money.
artifex @ Jan 5th 2007 3:05PM
If someone updates DVDD for this, so we can make personal backups of our HD-DVDs, then we have a winner in the format wars.
Morgan Gordon @ Jan 5th 2007 9:57PM
I think HD-DVD bitrate is something like 20 mbps