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Acer wouldn’t comment on reports Mon. that it plans to release a ...

Acer wouldn’t comment on reports Mon. that it plans to release a notebook PC with HD DVD drive next month. Because of the time difference, the company’s Taipei hq couldn’t be reached about the report from the Chinese-language Commercial…

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Times as translated to English by Taiwan’s Digitimes. Richard Black, Acer U.S. mktg. dir.-notebooks, told Consumer Electronics Daily he wasn’t aware of the reports, but as a matter of policy couldn’t comment until the parent company or its U.S. branch announced a product. Acer is an associate member of the HD DVD Promotion Group. It slipped past Toshiba into 3rd place worldwide in notebook shipments in the 4th quarter, according to preliminary data from research firm Gartner.