On sale on June 4th onwards.But the price is around US$3800.Also Tshiba will release the summer Qosmio model with HD-DVD Rom almost same price.
Fujitsu is also releasing 2 types.On notebook they are releasing HD-DVD Rom but on Desktop it's Blu Ray.They are going to be neutral on this.

Go Sony! That'll surely help the format war!

A $3,800 notebook... what a deal !

If it's one thing a notebook user would pay an extremely high price on it's a notebook that will play High Definition movies.

No word on BL or HD burners yet, I take it?

I think the laptop had one. I dunno what you'd use it for though.

backing up the hard drive?

burning HD home video to disc (assuming you have an HD camcorder)?

Hopefully in a few years good HD camcorders will be available in the sub-$1K range, BD and/or HD burner drives will be as common as DVD drives are now, and media will be reasonably priced.

Granted, most people don't have a use for this stuff yet, especially at these prices. But it has to start somewhere.

Are you serious? There are a myriad of uses for large-volume optical storage.

Seriously....Sony is potentially going to kill Blu-ray with these outrageous prices.

Pioneer is releasing their Blu-Ray pc-writer by the end of May with a retailprice of around € 800 ( $ 1100 USD).

I also heard the european prices of these Vaio products witch will be released here in June.
The desktop will cost 2500 euro's and the laptop 3000 euro's.

It's better than paying for the other format which will fail. Then you'll have to go with your master. Pray that he forgives you.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

She cant help it, its in her settling nature.