Acer sticks it to Blu-ray with a second HD-DVD laptop

06 Apr 06 19:19 by Crabbyappleton in category Uncategorized To news archive

Ouch!
Come on Blu-ray…you better get moving. According to this article over at Stuff
Magazine, not only can you snag an HD-DVD laptop from Toshiba, now you can get
one from Acer.

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HD-DVD has just extended its lead over Blu-Ray Utd thanks to a piledriver
from Acer; it’s just made the second HD-DVD-playing laptop, following
Toshiba’s G30 last month.

If anything, the Aspire 9800 is even more
accomplished than Tosh’s world first. We may be guilty of over-using the
word ‘cinematic’ to describe screens, but not here ‘“ it has a 20in,
1680×1050, which is good enough for 1080p high-def.

It’s naturally
got Intel’s Dual Core processing ‘“ which is officially cleverer than
Stephen Fry ‘“ and backs it up with a 240GB hard-drive, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
2.0.

Then there’s that HD-DVD drive. Such an advanced disc-eater
is, of course, useless in these days of zero next-gen releases, but the
first films are due this summer. Like the G30, it can’t write to HD-DVD
discs, but archivists will be able to burn to dual-layer DVDs
instead.

The 9800’s not just a glorified portable video player
either ‘“ there’s an integrated analogue and digital TV tuner, 1.3MP camera
and 5-in-1 card reader to take care of your multimedia
antics.

Sounds like a pretty nice laptop even without the
HD-DVD! You can read more about it over at href="http://www.stuffmag.co.uk/hotstuffarticle.asp?de_id=1514"
target=_new>Stuff Magazine online.

Source: Stuff Magazine

3 Comments

honorelsu
Posts: 18
Posted on: 06 Apr 06 23:02
1680x1050 is not good enough for 1080p 1080p is 1920 X 1080. Little things like this is why the consumer is so dumbfounded. Misinformation is the worst thing beside Copy protection of course.
FidelC
Posts: 987
Posted on: 07 Apr 06 04:03
Exactly what i was gonna say. For such model a DL dvd is "good enough". HD in this case is totally pointless as the image wont be reproduced pixel to pixel. On 20" screen you dont need HD anyway. Look closer to the screen and all you can see is noise, not pixellation(like in case of cheap digital cameras). Putting in better performing drive is, in respect to the price tag in pounds, like using a tank engine on a fiat. Cheers.
Kenshin
Posts: 12775
Posted on: 09 Apr 06 02:16
A HD DVD drive that cannot write to HD DVD disks is worthless for most of us. 4x dual (HD DVD and Blu-ray) writer please.

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