a company responsible for 80% of the blue laser diode supply. The diodes are used in both HD DVD and Blu-ray players, and the shortfall will severely limit the number of players that can be shipped.

announced today the availability of its new ATR0885 laser diode driver IC for use in combined HD-DVD/Blu-ray, DVD, CD players and PC CD-ROM drives. HD-DVD and Blu-ray are new disc standards ...

For economic reasons, big-name manufacturers of CW laser diodes focus on mass markets for consumer products such as CD and DVD players, laser printers, and data transfer and pointer applications. With ...

Combine that with the fact that some HD DVD players are being sold ... Sony's Blue Laser Diodes Down to $8 – PS3 and BD Player Price Cuts Soon?

DigiTimes is reporting that a serious shortage of blue laser diodes is forcing many manufacturers ... which means the expected pre-Holiday flood of HD-DVD and Blu-ray players may not materialize ...

According to [diyouware], inside of every HD-DVD player is a gem of laser ... Following along similar hacks which tore the laser diode out of Blu-ray players to expose PCBs, they wanted to use ...

Four years later he followed it with the first blue laser. The first digital video disc (DVD) players, using red diode lasers, had appeared in Japan in 1996, and in the US in 1997. Allowing consumers ...

Instructables has posted a guide for how to yank the blue diode out of a dusty Xbox 360 HD-DVD player and attach it to a (fake) gun to create…. a laser gun! It’s a pretty easy little mod ...

nonpolar blue-violet laser diode that it says could replace the c-plane violet laser diodes used by the Blu-ray and HD-DVD next-generation DVD formats. The team's initial results indicate that the ...