Liggy used our news submit to tell us about some more news from Heise today. This time it's about a PC HD-DVD drive reader from NEC.
wants to sell their first HD-DVD drive for PCs - the HR-1100A - beginning in October. The drive will be shipped with playback software and some movies. It is able to play back HD-DVDs, DVDs and CD discs, drives with writing capabilities are expected for January 2006 when also the first Bluray drives should hit the market. Reading speeds are 2x for HD-DVD, 8x for DVD, 5x for DVD-RAM and 32x for CD. For playback a display adapter with HDCP or HDMI interface is needed, the VGA output will not work. |
This multi-read drive will have some content to play too
as we have read that many films will be offered in the HD-DVD format - like
Batman Begins and The Bourne Supremacy for instance. Once again, if you can read
German, head
on over to Heise for a view at the source.
Source: Heise
