Blu-ray on the go. HD-DVD seen crying in the corner.

I pity anyone that may have jumped the gun and gone with HD-DVD. Not so much the players, as they were relatively cheap, but the HD-DVD drives for computers. Those things were expensive, and now you have an expensive drive with no more media being made for it. How convenient.

Since Blu-ray has officially won the "next-gen" optical disc format war, it only makes since that you'd see Blu-ray drives coming to PCs. Especially since the Blu-ray discs are able to hold such large amounts of data. 50GB to be precise. That's the size of 10 dual layer DVDs! All on one disc! I could archive my entire hard drive, actually all 3 of them, on 5 discs! That's awesome for data hogs like me. And HP is bringing to a laptop near you. Well, near you if you live in Europe.

The big news here is the addition of Blu-ray drives across the board, which obviously replaces the HD DVD option previously found on the models they're replacing. That desirable feature finds its way onto the new Pavilion dv2800, dv6800 and dv9800 series models, which boast 14.1, 15.4, and 17-inch displays, respectively, along with your choice of Core 2 Duo or Turion 64 X2 processors, integrated graphics or NVIDIA GeForce 8400M or 8600M (depending on the model) and even a Blu-ray burner on the 17-inch model.
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Yum. Of course, the way data storage is going and the increasing size of media, 50GB will seem like nothing in a few years time. I still remember getting my hands on a 20GB hard drive and thinking, "it'll take years before I can fill this thing up." Yeah... not quite.