Blu-Ray and HD-DVD coming to laptops

[Chris D]

Read a CNN news story today about these coming to laptops. I'm definitely going to hold off buying/building another computer until these are fully incorporated into computers, and I think I'll wait for Windows Vista, too. I'd like to see HDMI on computers--anybody think that will actually happen?

Here's the news story:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/0...eut/index.html

[Vinny]

Toshiba claimed HD-DVD will be on their laptops before HD-DVD player was released(check out their homepage, the ad has been on the front page for a while.) But what concerns me more is diversity of media is not good for computers. Everyone only has one and they will need to read some disks off others. The current solution is only DVD unless a company makes a third party drive that's cheap enough and able to put into all laptops.

HDMI would be tough because computers specialized the video and audio into two different world and also made by different companies. But I wouldn't mind ATI and M-Audio cooperate for developing one :B

[aud19]

HDMI/HDCP is coming to PC's but I'd wait a generation or two before jumping aboard myself....

[Hdale85]

Well it shouldnt really be to different then current DVI video cards, I mean they are pretty much just adding HDCP and changeing the connector. I dont know i may get one, I hav'nt decided.

[Vinny]

Well it shouldnt really be to different then current DVI video cards, I mean they are pretty much just adding HDCP and changeing the connector. I dont know i may get one, I hav'nt decided.

If it's pure video I think you can just do it with an adapter. If we are talking about video+audio's HDMI would be another story

[Hdale85]

Thats true...and the cards im looking at do video and audio. Not sure id use it. Not sure how the audio works. If it just passes the multichannel digital signal straight through then yeah possibly but if it does anything to it then id just use a nice sound card.