pcworld.com - 10/6/2008
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Sanyo Electric has developed a blue laser diode that will help lay the ground toward higher capacity and faster Blu-ray Disc systems. The laser can emit a beam of 450 milliwatts, which is about double the power of Sanyo's current highest power laser for Blu-ray Disc systems. The higher power ...
electronista.com - 10/8/2008
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electronista.com —
Sanyo on Monday revealed a new Blu-ray laser
that could significantly speed up recording while also doubling...
the amount of available storage. By increasing the power of the laser to about 450mW, the Japanese electronics maker says it can not only pr...
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Sanyo develops 12X, 100GB Blu-ray laser
gizmodo.com - 10/7/2008
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gizmodo.com —
Even though the blank media companies have been
touting 200GB Blu-ray discs for years, mostly as part...
of the psy-ops war against HD-DVD, the most any of today's players and burners can handle are dual-layer 50GB discs at around 8x recording speeds. A ...
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Sanyo's New High-Power Blu-ray Laser Will Burn 100GB ...
engadget.com - 10/6/2008
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engadget.com —
While Sony and others compete with Blu-ray burners
of a paltry 8x, Sanyo's looking ahead with a...
new laser that could enable write speeds of up to 12x. More impressively, the 450 milliwatt diode (twice that of current burners) could read and write ...
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Sanyo's laser could bring 12x Blu-ray burners and 100GB ...
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Sanyo blue laser diode could double Blu-ray capacity
CrunchGear —
... A new blue laser diode, developed by Sanyo, could help increase the capacity of Blu-ray discs. Even if it does, however, we’re still a few years away from seeing any such discs. ...
New Sanyo laser to double capacity of Blu-Ray discs
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... milliwatts, which is double that of Sanyo's current high-end Blu-Ray laser. What that means is that it can not only write four layers of 25GBs onto a standard Blu-Ray disc, but that Blu-Ray write speeds should increase as well, up to a maximum of 12x.
Unfortunately, it'll be a couple of years, minimum, before consumers sees the technology... which, given the uncertainty of Blu-Ray's mainstream acceptance, may mean that we might never see what Sanyo's new diodes can do.
Sanyo Laser to enable faster, higher capacity Blu-Ray discs [PC World] ...
Sanyo's laser could bring 12x Blu-ray burners and 100GB discs
Engadget —
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, StorageWhile Sony and others compete with Blu-ray burners of a paltry 8x, Sanyo's looking ahead with a new laser that could enable write speeds of up to 12x. More impressively, the 450 milliwatt diode (twice that of current burners) could read and write through four 25GB layers. If you're not so good at math (it's okay, we had to break out the calculator) that means discs of up to 100GB burned in 10 minutes or less! But don't go running down to your local Blu-ray emporium looking for double-digit ...
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T3.com News 10/8/2008
Some believe that optical media is on track for a slow and agonising demise, but Sanyo is keen to ensure that its death throes last as long as possible with the unveiling of a new 450mW blue laser diode that can burn Blu-ray discs with enough ...
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