Taiwanese university develops violet laser diode
National Central University (NCU), located in Chung-Li, Taiwan, has reported the successful operation of an electrically pumped violet laser diode. The device operated at 410...
The nine Blu-Ray disc founder companies begin licensing of the Rewritable format of the large capacity optical disc
Hitachi,LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Thomson today announced the start of licensing of...
Statement of the DVD Forum on the status of HD media using Blue Laser diode
DVD Forum today reported the status of its consideration of optical disc formats utilizing blue laser diodes and released the following statement. In June 2002,...
Fuji Film develops WORM Blu-Ray media!!
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. developed a Blu-ray Disc specification-compliant, write-once read-many (WORM) disc with a blue-violet laser light source. It features organic dye material...
CEATEC: Electronics makers exhibit a plethora of Blu-ray products
Products labeled with the "Blu-ray Disc" logo were on display all around the CEATEC JAPAN 2002 event held from Oct. 1-5 at the Makuhari Messe...
CEATEC: Blue-laser disc format prototypes unveiled
Many of the companies behind the Blu-ray Disc optical video disc format unveiled prototype players while Toshiba Corp. gave the first public demonstration of its...
Intersil releases industry's first Blu-Ray disc format Laser
Intersil Corporation (Nasdaq:ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions, today announced the release of the...
Future of rewritable DVDs to depend on competition over standards
The rewritable-DVD market will change beginning in 2003, with the standard for the product to be fully resolved. Confusion over the conflict among three kinds...
TDK gets 4x recording speed with write-Once, read-many-times disc meeting 'Blu-ray Disc' spec!
At the "ISOM/ODS 2002" conference held in Hawaii from July 7-11, TDK Corp. unveiled the results of its development of the write-once, read-many-times disc. The...
Pioneer, TDK develop 4x write-once optical disc for 'Blu-Ray'
Pioneer Corp. and TDK Corp. have jointly developed a write-once read-many-times optical disc, with the hopes that the technology will be included in the "Blu-Ray...
