Solid_Snake4RD on 12 September 2009
Sharp stepped up at the 70th Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics to promote its new 500mW Blu-ray laser that is reportedly production ready and waiting to churn out triple and quad layer (100GB) discs at 8x speed. The only thing holding it back from release now is the lack of an official spec from the BDA. Geeking out over details of the aluminum oxynitride film that enabled this breakthrough (pictured above) continues beyond the read link.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3405
Also the Pioneer 400GB blu-ray are scheduled to be ready by the end of this financial year.
