Posted on 02/17/2008 9:36:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Tokyo (Japan) – Sharp has developed new 250 mW blue-violet laser diodes which promise to bring a substantial speed boost to Blu-ray writers – up from 72 Mb/s today to a maximum of 216 Mb/s.
(Excerpt) Read more at tgdaily.com ...
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Samples of the new diodes are available at this time, but aren’t exactly cheap: Sharp charges 50,000 Yen or about $462 per unit.
Well, I dunno....perhaps LG is using a different supplier’s diode?
At any rate, it appears that the ‘horizon’ is considerably closer than what the article’s author would have readers believe :-)
Newegg beats that......>
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Well,...I want speed...more ways to spend money...
Remember the line from the first Mad Max film? “speed is only a question of money...how fast do you want to go?”
:-)
LOL!
shutdown time here....nite!
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