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Sharp's scientists have improved their blue-violet laser technology, reducing waste heat and boosting power and efficiency so that soon your laptop Blu-ray drive will be able to burn at a rocking 6x speed. All while reducing its size to 3.3mm, which will mean thinner laptops. They will start mass production in April. [AV Watch]
New 6X Recording Blu-Ray Lasers to Reduce Size, Save Power
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3:25 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Kit Eaton
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Nice touch lol blue ray/blue pencil. I just upgraded my laptop looks like I am going to need to buy a new one, lol damn.
Seems strange now but ashampoo has been building blue-ray burning support into their software for about 2years now, but hd-dvd burning was never added :O
Blu-ray is a great technology that within a few years it will be applied to each one of the electronic devices that we use in our daily live.
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@MayGirl: That's just great, but can you please stop plugging your website on the Giz now? Thanks
@citizen.lambda:
I second that motion. But seriously this is pretty cool. I am sooo hoping that there will be a PS3 price cut this year, but that seems unlikely because of all the awesome games coming out; people will be willing to spend the extra 100 bucks.
Somehow, I'm doubting that the size of the laser diode inside the optical drive on a laptop is the limiting factor in making laptops thinner...
Wait? Blue-violet laser? Shouldn't we be calling this Mauve-Ray?
Oh, and BTW, I purposely DON'T go to any pimped websites.
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