HP introduced several new products that will support the HD DVD standard, including the dv9000t notebook (pictured). The HD DVD drive in this notebook can play high-definition movies on its 17-inch screen, and the notebook has an HDMI port that can allow it to be used as a DVD player for a big-screen high-definition television.
Along with the new notebook, HP added a new PC running Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition to its lineup Thursday. The m7600n comes with Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor and is labeled with Intel’s Viiv sticker, meaning it will be able to send audio and video files to Viiv-certified networking devices once those are more prevalent.
All that high-definition video takes up a lot of space on conventional hard drives. So HP plans to offer its customers a Media Vault in time for the holiday season that can store up to 1.2 terabytes of data in high-end configurations.
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
