With the announcement of plans to start selling PCs and notebooks equipped with HD-DVD drives by end of 2005, Toshiba and NEC have taken it to the next step in the blue laser DVD Format War. Toshiba has high hopes of selling about 1 million of its high-end Qosmio notebooks, at about $1,845 to $2,770, within a year after the launch date. NEC has not yet annouced which PCs will carry the HD-DVD drives, but does plan to make the technology available for their notebooks by end of 2006.

This is a big step forward for the HD-DVD supporters in getting their format standardized, but the major factor that will ultimately decide who wins this battle will be the movie companies.

R.Hollis

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