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An HD screen, Blu-ray drive, TV tuner and competitive price result in an excellent-value entertainment laptop.

The Cell is not just for the PlayStation 3 - now the technology is making inroads into laptop territory.

It's tipped as the next big in consumers electronics, and now it looks like the "cell" chip is about to make its benefits felt in your laptop.

Blu-Ray notebooks are the next battleground, and the good news is they're slowly getting cheaper. ASUS is staking a claim with this monstrously powerful behemoth.

No more HD DVD players, recorders, PC drives from March, but no mention of Blu-Ray option by Toshiba.

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

Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.