Gateway Launches First Dual HD DVD/Blu-ray PCs

Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:45AM EST

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Is the high-def optical format war over? If you've already invested in HD DVD technology or media, you may not be relishing the inexorable move to Blu-ray. Good news, then: Gateway has a computer for you. Its GM5664 desktop PC will be its first to include a hybrid optical drive capable of playing both HD DVD and Blu-ray DVDs.

The new system includes a Hybrid-SuperMulti drive that can only play high-def formats; it won't write to either format. (It can of course still burn standard DVDs and CDs.) Other features on the system include an AMD Phenom CPU, 3GB of RAM, TV tuner, ATI Radeon HD 2400XT graphics card, and a full one-terabyte hard drive. The system runs just $1,150. It is available immediately.

Machines like the GM5664 (a few other manufacturers have similar computers for sale) are refreshing in that they offer the hundreds of thousands of people who've already taken a stand in the high-def war to hedge their bet no matter which way the format battle is ultimately decided, without adding a lot to the overall price of the machine.

If you just want to upgrade your PC with a dual-format HD DVD and Blu-ray drive, check out LG's GGC-H20L optical drive, which you can sub in for your existing optical drive for about $250.

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  • 2 Posted by hockeyhotshot_23 on Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:18PM EST Report Abuse

    Chris u r pretty late with this one. Best Buy has had this product now for 4 weeks. It's not bad, though I'd like a quad core chip in it from intel

  • 3 Posted by rogueist on Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:22PM EST Report Abuse

    I do not know why everyone keeps saying "BlueRay Won" - I dont see it around here - nobody is buying BlueRay anything around here - they are all buying HD... and even the XBox has a HD drive for it...

  • 4 Posted by isadkovich on Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:12PM EST Report Abuse

    It's not the first to have a dual format drive. HP introduced a series of computers with the LG GGW-H10N last spring.

  • 5 Posted by joefoti7777 on Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:31PM EST Report Abuse

    hd/blu ray are both good formats, now if hd players could think as fast as blu ray, then it would be a competition

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