Optical goodness coming our way...

Toshiba has apparently been showing a slim HD-DVD capable of writing 15GB onto a single disk; frankly, given the price of blank HD-DVD media this does not impress me.

On the other hand, Hitachi's GGW-H20N H/H BD Dual Rewriter with Sata Interface DOES impress me.

This drive is a combination HD and Blu-Ray drive that will write 50GB dual layer Blu-Day disks; it write BD-R, BD-RW, DVD and CD formats. Unfortunately it will not write HD-R or HD-RW, but it will apparently read them - and frankly, with the lower prices for BD media, and its higher capacity, I don't particularly care about HD write capability.

I really like the SATA interface; finally we can start to let the old IDE interface rest in peace.