Sharp 250mW Blu Ray laser?

[cyclonite]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/sharps-laser-to-enable-6x-dual-layer-blu-ray-laptop-burning/

Anyone knows what the above laser can do? At that wavelength can we burn stuff with it?

Cheers.

 

[goldfingerfif]

Of course you can burn with it. I would bet you could get 150mW CW.

 

[cyclonite]

Cool... anyone doing a GB on this? I've got a PSU to drive it

 

[Laser_Team_Holland]

In a couple of year time, they're probably just as cheap as the red ones are now. Just be patient

 

[cyclonite]

Of coz, when the capacity needs of storage increases everyone will be forced to move towards blu-ray. We're already seeing many blu-ray laptops these days.

Ohh yah and HD-DVD is already on the 'deathwatch' list so it's already a dying technology. This means that the move is towards Blu-Ray.

On a seperate subject, even MS is going to sell an external Blu-Ray drive for their Xbox 360 consoles

 

[BlueFusion]

Haven't you heard? HD-DVD _is_ dead. Toshiba abandoned it.

So yes, even within the year, these diodes / sleds will be cheap.

 

[krisje8]

If HD-DVD is dead, are the burners going to be cheap? And is the diode stronger than one from a dvd burner?

[ot]Laser_Team_Holland
Do you know what that sculpture ting (your avatar) stands for? I live in Eindhoven too but I've got no idea at all .[/ot]

 

[Laser_Team_Holland]

If HD-DVD is dead, are the burners going to be cheap? And is the diode stronger than one from a dvd burner?

[ot]Laser_Team_Holland
Do you know what that sculpture ting (your avatar) stands for? I live in Eindhoven too but I've got no idea at all .[/ot]

Well, they just had some space left and dumped a piece of art (heap of metal) on it

I found a link which explains it all: http://www.dse.nl/~hanevoet/fotoosarieb/arieb.html

 

[BlueFusion]

HD-DVD never had burners. Or at least very few. And it uses violet too... basically expensive version of the ps3 sled diodes