HP Pavilion Notebooks Get Blu-Ray Drives, dv2700, dv6700 and dv9700 Lines Introduced

HP is updating its Pavilion 14.1-inch, 15.4-inch and 17-inch notebook lines and offering Blu-Ray ROM drives in its consumer line for the first tme. The new dv2700, dv6700 and dv9700 are very similar to the previous models and will accomodoate future components that will be announced in the coming months.

The Blu Ray disc player is a $400 upgrade on Pavilion notebooks. HP will continue to offer HD DVD optical drives as a $200 upgrade option. Both high-def optical drives read their respective high-def formats and can write standard-def DVDs and CDs. Those who opt for either high-def optical drive will need to configure their notebooks with a dedicated graphics card, such as the 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M for $149.

HP will continue to offer the standard SuperMulti DVD burner as standard equipment, an optional DVD burner with Lightscribe.

I recommend buying a Blu-ray equipped notebook only if you’re absolutely certain this is the format for you. With the high-def format wars still raging, many movies are only available on one format or the other. Also, most high-def notebook drives are read only, meaning you can’t backup or archive your content most HD DVD or Blu-ray players.

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Comments

williamsmith79

Had my HP Paviliion now for about 18 months and this is the first time ive come to use the blue ray player. The laptop its self will only get to the menu page but will not play the movie. When connected to the tv via hdmi the tx picks up the laptop and quickplayer but when you put a disk in nothing. Can you please offer some advise?

bruce h

I would not buy anything HP with blue ray. I own the dv9700 and its a disaser. why they decided to put hdmi and blue ray in i'll never know. the quickplay menu does not work, the blue ray player does not play discs through hdmi output to an external hd tv, even tho i spent hours and hours trying to research and configure it, and the hdmi connector does not play video to my hdtv. I can get video out occasionally but never audio through the hdmi. HP has become very disappointing to me. Dont waste your money.

eric ross

I have a hp laptop with a blueray disc drive and it doesnt play the disc at all.

Bhavik

I would really appreciate if someone can advise me on the laptop i can buy. What i want is an HP Pavilion dv6 series which features Bluray as well as the latest standard of wifi that is having N-draft protocol (802.1 a/b/g/n WLAN)

Thanks!

sokol

i want to know the price of a laptop of hp pavillion dv2700?
please can u send me an e-mail

Preferred Customer

i already own an HP Pavillion dv6000 and i was wondering if there exists an after-market upgrade for my laptop to convert the existing CD drive to a Blu-ray drive??

sanusuki

uhm.. can i ask a little help, kinda urGent. :(

HP dv**** series rocks my bOat because of the superb external interface ..

but the dilemma stars when i can't decide what model im gonna take ..

DV6700, DV9500 and DV9700..

overall designs of the 3 are good, the 9x series had the touchpad more on the left side this time, which isn't that annoying, making full use of the keyboard..a plus.

DV6700 models are my first choice, retains the classic design than the 9x..plus a fprint scanner and stuff..

im very concerned about the damn fan noise and thermoregulation when working on laptop.. im wondring which of the two options have a more silent operation when used, with less heat?? and which has a 64bit capability.. i heard many news with the coming of diff. OS releases, so pretty much likewise i dnt want the model to be outdated THAT much ..thank u..i came to a decision between AMD and intel, with intel 1 to 2 notches above AMD, so processor aint that much of a problem, thanks to the people HERE making it clear :) One more thing, if the 9700 series had the bios locked up, that wud really stink.. and is it true that the machine is just for vista? what about WINdows 7? cant wait to upgrade.... thats all.. THANK u.. swift responses is greatly appreciated.. :)

itakadimasu!