HP joins HD bandwagon: Blu-Ray/HD-DVD combo drive coming soon
It’s nothing new to the forefront in the high definition format wars. Samsung accomplished the same with their own BD-UP5000 – a decent marriage between Toshiba‘s HD-DVD and Sony‘s Blu-Ray. But it seems that hybrid drives (or combo drives as the techie world would like to put it) are the safest bet for everyone.
Enter Hewlett-Packard, a consumer and business computer solutions provider. They may lead in the printer camp, but they aren’t any slackers in the PC camp either…well, not awful slackers, for the most part. According to a report by CNET News, HP will be sporting a HD-DVD and Blu-Ray internal drive for PCs in two models of their Pavilion line.
The Pavilion Media Center m8010y and the Pavilion d4890y will both sport a “triple writer, dual read” drive, come May 9, 2007. The drive is currently being offered as an optional drive for both systems, but there has yet to be a mention of it’s model number, pricing and upgrade options for older Pavilions (including laptops) with HD-DVD drives.
Via CNET News
It’s nothing new to the forefront in the high definition format wars. Samsung accomplished the same with their own BD-UP5000 – a decent marriage between Toshiba‘s HD-DVD and Sony‘s Blu-Ray. But it seems that hybrid drives (or combo drives as the techie world would like to put it) are the safest bet for everyone.
Enter Hewlett-Packard, a consumer and business computer solutions provider. They may lead in the printer camp, but they aren’t any slackers in the PC camp either…well, not awful slackers, for the most part. According to a report by CNET News, HP will be sporting a HD-DVD and Blu-Ray internal drive for PCs in two models of their Pavilion line.
The Pavilion Media Center m8010y and the Pavilion d4890y will both sport a “triple writer, dual read” drive, come May 9, 2007. The drive is currently being offered as an optional drive for both systems, but there has yet to be a mention of it’s model number, pricing and upgrade options for older Pavilions (including laptops) with HD-DVD drives.
Via CNET News
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