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First blue-laser DVD recorder unveiled
News Sony says it's ready to deliver its first blue-laser DVD recorder, which the company promises will let discs hold up to five times more data than current red-laser DVD models. The technology uses a short-wavelength blue-violet laser -- instead of...
[March 3, 2003, 16:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog By no coincidence whatsoever, "very shiny" is exactly how not to describe 70 percent of the blue laser diodes currently made by the Japanese. Blue laser diodes were invented late last century by Shuji Nakamura at Nichia Chemical Industries, who...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Sony debuts blue discs
News Sony debuted on Monday optical storage discs that use blue-laser technology to hold more data and that offer improved durability. The Sony Professional Disc for Data, which targets the business market worldwide, uses blue laser technology as...
[April 27, 2004, 9:25]
NEC sees blue and red in DVD future
News NEC has developed technology to record and read both current and next-generation DVDs with a single optical head, adding to the momentum of blue-laser DVD products. NEC and Toshiba have proposed a blue-laser format to the DVD Forum industry group.
[December 19, 2003, 9:20]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HP is one of the first companies to announce the inclusion of Blu-ray Disc, a blue-laser technology that enables storage of up to 50GB on a dual-layer disc. Blu-ray Disc is competing with another blue-laser technology, high-definition DVDs, but the...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Sony develops 25GB paper disc
News The Blu-ray Disc format uses blue laser light and is considered a successor to today's red-laser DVD drives. Another group, including Toshiba and NEC, have been working on a competing blue laser disc technology.
[April 16, 2004, 14:25]
Philips' blue lasers shrink discs
News The increased storage is made possible by way of blue-laser technology. The group is pushing a new blue-laser format for standard-sized CDs, which will increase their capacity to 27GB. Blue lasers have shorter wavelengths than red lasers, which are...
[June 20, 2002, 13:59]
First Blu-ray spec finished
News The blue-laser technology will allow greater storage capacities, up to 50GB for dual-layer rewritable disks, compared with 4.7GB on current DVDs. The two blue-laser formats are incompatible, but both are compatible with current DVD formats.
[August 12, 2004, 9:15]
Holographic storage: Virtual reality?
News This involves taking the light from a coherent laser source — in the Tapestry drive this is a 407nm blue laser of the sort developed for Blu-Ray DVD drives — and splitting it into two beams, a signal or data-carrying beam and a reference beam.
[November 15, 2005, 11:55]
Nanocrystal sheds new light on future illumination
News Bowers pumped a solution containing the nanocrystals into a small glass cell and illuminated it with a laser. When cadmium selenide nanocrystals are illuminated by a laser or LED they "produce a smoother distribution of wavelengths in the visible...
[October 24, 2005, 16:45]
Road Angel Plus
Downloads Fully Integrated Laser Sensor - With it's fully interaged laser sensor, to warn you of mobile police laser guns and safety camera vans, the unit is an all in one licence saver. Should the law chane and laser sensors are banned all you have to...
[February 6, 2006, 7:00]
Sony demonstrates Blu-ray technology
News Blue laser drives represent the next generation in DVD recording technology, using a short-wavelength violet laser -- instead of the red lasers in current optical drives -- to read data from the discs.
[April 8, 2003, 9:25]
Sony develops 25GB paper disc
Talkback Can you tell me which manufacturer(s) is going to make the PlayStation 3 blue diode laser? What part of the PlayStation 3 does Sony participate (The Blue ray console and what else)? What part of the PlayStation 3 does IBM participate in (the CELL...
[March 16, 2006, 18:34]
Toshiba, NEC snub Blu-ray DVD format
News Toshiba and NEC will present details of their blue-laser format, called Advanced Optical Disc (AOD), this week at the Optical Data Storage 2003 conference in Vancouver, Canada. As a result, the claim that the blue-laser technology requires only a...
[May 13, 2003, 11:11]
First Blu-ray spec finished
Talkback The blue-laser technology will allow greater storage capacities, up to 50GB for dual-layer rewritable disks, compared with 4.7GB on current DVDs quote] In my opinion you can not compare the capaticity of a single layer DVD with a dual layer blue...
[February 25, 2005, 8:09]
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Deep Blue mod
Downloads Deep Blue v3.0 features six new weapons, laser scopes, updated blood physics, new sounds, music, effects and more.
[June 15, 2004, 8:35]
Disk-drive industry sees brighter future in store
Talkback Colossal Storage Corporation has proven their invention on dominant patents the first patents issued in any field that details a totally new concept for a Ultra-Violet/Deep Blue Laser integrated semiconductor R/W Head used for non-contact...
[September 12, 2003, 19:34]
LaCie d2 Blu-Ray Drive
White Papers The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive uses a blue-violet laser and improved lens specifications (wavelength, NA-numerical aperture) allowing for a laser beam focus that's approximately one-fifth smaller than the red laser used to burn DVDs.
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
data2date™
Downloads Many of the templates are perfect for printing directly to a laser printer, or customize calendars for your family or friends and print to a color printer. Make birthdays bold, add payroll reminders, or make all company functions blue.
[October 1, 2003, 8:00]
China developing 'super DVD' format
News The technology uses a short-wavelength blue-violet laser -- instead of the red lasers in current optical drives -- to read data. Details about the format, such as storage capacity, compression format for audio and video files and type of reading...
[October 28, 2003, 8:55]
