A Qosmio multimedia notebook with a rewritiable HD DVD and two HDTV tuners will go on sale in Japan this week.
Toshiba will begin selling later this week the first laptop computer to feature a rewritable HD DVD optical disc drive, the company said on Monday.
The PC will be in its Qosmio multimedia laptop range and is firmly aimed at users who want to enjoy high-definition video on their PCs. It has two digital HDTV tuners so that one station can be recorded while watching another and the laptop comes with 400GB of hard-disk drive recording space.
The system will cost around $3500 and it will go on sale in Japan only on Friday. Toshiba didn't announce overseas launch plans. Previous models of Qosmio PC have been put on sales overseas after the Japan launch.
The newest Qosimo has a 17-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1920 pixels by 1200 pixels, so is suitable for watching HDTV in full resolution.
The HD DVD-R/RW drive can be used to transfer recorded TV shows or content from a high-definition video camera to disc for archiving. The drive also supports the new HD Rec format that allows for recording HD content on conventional DVD discs. With the price of blank HD DVD media still relatively high, the ability to use cheap DVD media could be a welcome feature for users. However, the capacity of DVD discs is lower so only about 24 minutes of video can be stored on a single-layer DVD.
The PC is based on a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor and there's a NVidia GeForce 8600 graphics processor. Other features include a harman/kardon 4-speaker sound system, 2GB of memory and 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN.
As to be expected from a multimedia PC with such a large screen, the Qosmio G40 is a heavy laptop. It weighs about 10 pounds, so isn't the most portable machine in the world, but likely consumers will be people who live in small apartments and who want a PC, TV and video recorder all-in-one to save space.
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