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Previously announced by Toshiba at January's CES 2007, the Qosmio G30/97A notebook has shipped in Japan, marking the first time a notebook system has shipped with an HD DVD-R drive. The notebook is available for...

In late February 2007, Toshiba will release (in Japan) the first notebook with support for the write-once HD DVD-R optical disc format. The G30/97A notebook is an upgrade of Toshiba's hefty Qosmio G30 entertainment notebook....

Lead Data, a second-tier producer of optical storage discs in Taiwan, will begin deliveries of blank 8x DVD-R discs to a Japanese client in February. The client is one of the world's top five optical...