New HD-DVD and Blu-ray product announcements are made almost daily, as the next generation format race is heating up. Toshiba will be announcing a slim standard 12.7mm high SD-L902A drive for notebooks on Tuesday. The announcement will take place at the Ceatec expo in Japan. The expo will kick off with Sony's Blu-ray news conference, and many HD-DVD/Blu-ray announcements are expected to be made during the event by different vendors.

The SD-L902A drive is the standard 12.7 millimeters high, which means it can fit in the drive bay of most laptops. It can read and write HD DVDs, DVDs and CDs, Toshiba said Monday.

It will be shown at the Ceatec show, Japan’s biggest electronics exhibition, which begins Tuesday. At last year’s Ceatec, Toshiba debuted its slim-type HD-DVD reader. The first laptop to feature the drive, its Qosmio G30, went on sale earlier this year.

Source: CIO Tech Informer