Toshiba SD-L902A - HD DVD Drive Made for Laptops

Toshiba today announced the SD-L902A, world’s first HD DVD drive made slim for laptops that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVDs and CDs. Sample shipments of the new Toshiba SD-L902A drive are scheduled to start by the end of 2007.

At only 12.7 millimeters in height, Toshiba’s space-saving laptop HD DVD solution integrates a blue-violet laser diode for reading and writing to HD DVD-R discs in single layer or in dual layer mode. The Toshiba SD-L902 supports high-density HD DVD-ROM discs, including high definition movie and video images. The drive also offers the functionality of a super multi-drive, with high performance, high-speed read and write to all flavors of standard DVD and CD discs.

The SD-L902 weights around 0.37 pounds.

Toshiba will demonstrate the new drive at CEATEC JAPAN 2006, at Makuhari Messe from October 3 to 7.

Toshiba : Press Releases 2 October, 2006

I think the sample shipments are scheduled to start by end of 2006.