Sharp Readies BD-100 Blu-ray Laser

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"Sharp announced that they have successfully created a Blu-ray laser diode...to burn four-layer Blu-ray discs...with either 75GB or 100GB capacities..."

Cubist commentary

The announcement that Sharp engineers have created a laser with the ability to burn Blu-ray discs with up to double the capacity of those currently available sounds interesting, particularly in light of the Blu-ray Disc Association's development of a 3D standard. 3D media is bound to require more data capacity. On-line forums cautioned, however, that this advance will likely find immediate use as a method of data storage, not entertainment distribution for the near term as player manufacturers advance their firmware and consumer uptake for the format in general increases. In addition, the replication process for retail discs involves stamping from a glass master, not burning individual discs, so the applicability to the current entertainment BD marketplace is not entirely clear. Still, Blu-ray was a data storage medium years before it become an entertainment distribution medium, so we might see these super-capacity discs soon than we might expect.

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