The Qosmio is the absolute pinnacle in multimedia notebooks. It brings everything you need for a good Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) system and squeezes it into a notebook form-factor. Albeit a large notebook form-factor. Yes the Qosmio is a huge and heavy notebook, but it's not nearly as heavy as it would have been if it was packed with desktop internals as many desknotes of this size usually are.

A stunning way to enjoy HD DVD, but the wonderful design and features come at a price

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The format wars continue as Blu Ray comes to a monster laptop at a monster price.

Toshiba this week unveiled a new line of laptops optimised for video and audio playback that include a "quick-start" feature which gets the notebook ready for television viewing or CD playing in just seconds.

A decent multimedia notebook, but it’s not exciting enough for the price.

Toshiba has now introduced a laptop with a HD-DVD drive. And gave us details on HD-DVD.

A bargain route to getting HD DVD playback for your PC or Xbox, but there are limitations.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.