Toshiba Announces First Laptop with Blu-ray 3D
Posted June 7, 2010 05:12 AM by Juan Calonge
Toshiba Corporation today announced the introduction of the notebook PC model dynabook TX/98MBL, the industry's first laptop to feature playback of 3D content in the Blu-ray 3D format, using active-shutter glasses. It will be available from the end of July in the Japanese market. No price has been announced yet.
The dynabook TX/98MBL features a 15.6-inch wide LCD display with LED backlighting and a 120Hz scan rate. It employs WinDVD BD for TOSHIBA to play back content in the Blu-ray 3D format, and NVIDIA 3D Vision software and hardware (GeForce GTS 350M, and 1GB Video RAM dedicated to graphics processing).
This 3D notebook PC uses active shutter technology and LCD glasses which lighten and darken at the same refresh rate of the 120Hz LCD, with an effective refresh rate for each eye of 60Hz. As each eye receives a slightly different image, the result is a dynamic, high quality[6] stereoscopic image: full 3D[7]. High level system performance is secured by integration or NVIDIA's latest graphic processor, the NVIDIAŽ GeForceŽ GTS 350M[4], and 1GB Video RAM dedicated to graphics processing.
The processor is an Intel Core i7-740QM, and on-board storage is provided by a capacity 640GB hard disk drive.
The latest version of Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 are pre-installed.
Toshiba vows to continue to meet users' needs by developing and commercializing notebook PCs integrating advanced features and functionality.