Qosmio G40 with HD-DVD writer as compared to BlueRay

This is my 1st post.
I just got my G40-127, and I am wondering. Didn't the internatiolnal community kick HD-DVD to the curb, and go for Blue-Ray?
Is thee any way to get a Blue-Ray wrighter to my machine or has I misunderstood this machines HD-DVD concept.
Please set me straight. Any1.

Maybe you should take a look into this thread:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=34643
There is very interesting and useful posting created by Jeffrey.
Fact is that the CD/DVD drive in your G40 doesnt support only the HD DVD but also other formats. The HD-DVD capability is only a one part of this drive.
It is fully backward compatible and supports the DVD-RW SuperMulti (DL) standard too.
Furthermore there are more than 800 movie titles available for the HD DVD format which can be played in G40.
Anyway I didnt find any infos about availability of Blueray drives in other Toshiba notebooks. Who knows what will happen in the future

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