Toshiba readies notebook with HD DVD player

Toshiba claims to have developed the first notebook with its new HD DVD drive.

Notebook computers with this slim notebook HD drive will start selling in Japan by early 2006.

'Toshiba has responded to this trend by promoting the advanced imaging capabilities of the next-generation HD DVD format and has now brought HD DVD to portable computing, the fastest growing segment of the computer market,' it said in a statement.