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Sony's Blu-Ray Breakthrough
In its dogged battle to be the dominant Hi Def DVD player that consumers buy, Sony has won another battle: it has now developed
the world's smallest Blu-ray reader/writer module. The new module will make Blu-ray players less expensive.
Developed jointly with Nichia of Japan, the new laser unit is just 3mm thick and should help manufacturers miniaturise the hardware in their Blu-ray drives. Sony says it imagines the device ending up in 9.5mm laptop drives sometime this year.
Cost savings come from a simpler manufacturing process that will yield dividends in mass production, while other features include the ability to handle dual-layer BDs and disks with organic dye in the recording layers. Organic disks can be churned out from existing DVD production lines, so it's a win-win situation here.
The Hi Def wars aren't over yet, but Sony has been winning key battles this year so far against HD DVD.
Posted on January 25, 2008
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