Toshiba Qosmio G30 HD DVD Review

To me the whole war over the two different next generation storage and multimedia formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray DVD, is not a big issue, eventually one will come out on top, but until that happens, it is interesting to see how far reaching the technologies get.

Toshiba recently showed off what they can do by putting a HD DVD drive in their new Qosmio G30 and Pocket-lint has had a chance to take a look at it, and report on what they think of the machine.

What really makes this machine stand out from anything else on the market is the use of HD-DVD optical drive.

Naturally is a Toshiba drive, the Toshiba Tri-Format DVD/HD-DVD player and true, it’s only a player but we won’t start to see rewriter versions until later in the year.

For now, it comes bundled with a Hi-Def viewer. We couldn’t get our hands on any full length films but the DVD of trailers we were supplied with gave a great representation of what we can expect from future movies, which is simply breath-taking and once you’ve experience Hi-Def there really is no going back to standard movies.

In the end the machine manages to earn a nine out of ten rating as well as a hot product badge, saying that the only main problem with the machine is really just its current price, and as all computer users know, that will eventually drop.

Related Posts: