This new Sony Vaio ad, created by 180 in Los Angeles, shows an HDTV open up swallow a Blu-ray player. It’s meant to show the Sony Vaio as a combination of an HDTV and Blu-ray player. Either way it’s a pretty awesome clip, enjoy.
Tags: Blu-ray Laptops, Blu-ray News, Sony
In a surprising move, the Toshiba Europe CEO, announced that the company is not looking to add Blu-ray capabilities to its laptops. The HD-DVD creator, released information on a new line of laptops, none of which contain a high-definition drive. Instead the laptops support upscaling of standard DVDs only. When asked about the omission of Blu-ray support, Alan Thompson, CEO for Toshiba Europe said, “At this present time we are not using Blu-ray. Blu-ray is just one of many ways that you can get HD content and is not required for accessing HD content.”
We’re wondering how long Toshiba is going to put its money on it’s ‘new’ upconverting technology until it goes Blu. In the meantime, it’ll bets are on as to who gives in to Blu-ray first; Toshiba or Microsoft.
Tags: Blu-ray Laptops, Blu-ray News, Toshiba
HP has unveiled the new Elitebook 6930p notebook which features a magesium alloy cover to meet the Mil-Spec 810F standard against extreme temperatures, humidity, dust, and vibrations. The 6930p is rugged but small weighing in at 4.7 pounds with a 14.1″ screen and an upgrade bay for a Blu-ray drive.
The Elitebook 6930p comes with a 45nm Intel Centrino 2 Duo 9000 or 8000 series chip with vPro technology and the option for an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 with 128 or 256MB of memory. For communication, it has an optional built-in EV-DO/HSPA module and a Broadcom 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi chip as well as Bluetooth 2.0. There are three USB ports with a HDD option of a 5400 RPM SATA drive in 120/160/250GB capacities or a 7200 RPM SATA drive in 120/160GB.
The HP Elitebook 6930p will be available in late July with prices starting from $1,179.
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HP is giving it’s Pavilion DV Series consumer laptop line a face-lift for the first time since 2006. The entire line features Blu-ray drives, HD Tuners, webcams, fingerprint readers and built-in 3G internet which should appease feature hungry consumers. The black and white notebooks will all have invisible “magic chrome” controls that light up and become fully interactive upon power up.
The newly redesigned line will include three models, the dv4, dv5, and dv7 which come with 14.1″, 15.4″, and 17″ displays respectively. All three will feature an AMD or Intel option and come with Windows Vista with no option for Windows XP announced at this time.
The dv4 will offer up to a maximum 320GB hard drive and 3 USB ports. Its base price will be from $800 (AMD) to $1000 (Intel). The dv5 will have 4 USB ports, an NVIDIA graphics card, with a base price of $700 (AMD) to $900 (Intel). Lastly, the dv7 will have multi-channel audio with subwoofer, 4 USBs, ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, with a hard drive up to 640GB. The base price will start at $950 (AMD) to $1230 (Intel).
The dv5 will be released this month, the dv7 following in July, and the dv4 in September.
[Gizmodo]
Tags: Blu-ray Drives, Blu-ray Laptops, Blu-ray News, HP, HP Pavilion, HP Pavilion DV, Magic Touch
Acer has just announced the availability of the Blu-ray fitted, fully HD capable Aspire Gemstone Blue notebook series. Included in this series is the Aspire 8920 with a monstrous 18.4-inch (1920 X 1080) screen to watch movies on. Under the hood you’ll find an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 processor, up to 640GB of hard drive capacity, memory card reader, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS discrete graphics.
The other laptop in the series is the 16-inch (1920 X 1080) Aspire 6920 which features an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 processor, up to 320GB of hard drive capacity, memory card reader, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS discrete graphics.
Both laptops include the 2nd generation Dolby Home Theater technology and up to 5 integrated speakers for 5.1 surround sound output. The Gemstone Blue laptops ship with Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate or Home Premium pre-installed.
Available now at Acer authorized resellers and select retailer in the United States. The Aspire 8920 starts at $1300 and the Aspire 6920 at $850 for basic configurations.
Tags: 8920, Acer, Acer 8920, Aspire, Blu-ray Laptops, Blu-ray News
Fujitsu-Siemens just began shipping the AMILO Xi 2550 entertainment laptop that’s full of all sort of HD features. This Windows Vista Home premium features a 17″ full HD Display (1920X1200), optional Blu-ray drive, and standard HDMI port. It also packs ATI’s HD 2700 graphics chipset, Intel Pro/Wireless 802.11a/g/n, remote control and multimedia LightTouch control panel. It looks like this laptop is all you need if you’re looking for a full featured HD experience on the go. This is available now for £1193 ($1752).
Tags: AMILO Xi, Blu-ray Laptops, Blu-ray News, Fujitsu-Siemens, Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Xi 2550
