HD DVD Hardware/Software Playback News

There are a few quick news updates on the HD DVD Hardware/Software Playback News.

Acer Announced New Laptops with HD DVD playback capability

The Acer Aspire 9110, 9510 and the higher-end 9800 will feature the nVidia GeForce Go 7600 family of GPUs and a HD DVD drive. Acer has announced that it will launch the higher-end model later this month... Details here.

So until now, Fujitsu, Acer and Toshiba are officially offering consumers HD DVD playback capability on their notebook computer systems. And most of the announced notebooks are planned for retail before the end of the year.

InterVideo WinDVD HD (HD DVD Disc Player) Features Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital-Plus

InterVideo's HD DVD Disc Player WinDVD HD will be the first to feature software decoding of next-generation audio technologies, Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital-Plus; both of which are mandatory on the HD DVD format specifications.