Blu-ray Drives in Notebook PC's, A Brief Timeline

August’ 06: Sony introduced Blu-ray drives in notebook PC’s. The breakthrough model comes from VAIO AR series.

December’ 06: Dual layer Blu-ray discs are out that can hold up to 50GB of data. XPS M1710 is the first model from Dell to come out with a Blu-ray drive.

January’ 07: Broadcom announced a first of its kind System-on-a-Chip solution that allows for support of Blu-ray as well as HD-DVD format. Acer also offers Blu-ray drive on Aspire 9810 model.

June’ 07: Broadcom announced the availability of Media PC technology in add-in card formats that permits the integration of Blu-ray technology in notebooks PC’s at an economical price. Alienware m9750 available with Blu-ray. Dell also extendeds Blu-ray capability to Inspiron 1420, 1520 and 1720 models.

August’ 07: Hitachi makes breakthrough with Blu-ray camcorders. With Blu-ray enabled high definition video cameras coming into the market, there will be a greater need of notebook pc’s that allow for high definition video editing.

September’ 07: Sony adds Blu-ray as an option to VAIO FZ series.

October’ 07: Fujitsu announces LifeBook N6460 with Blu-ray drive.