Maxit Mag

 

Sanyo Electric has developed a blue laser diode that will help lay the ground toward higher capacity and faster Blu-ray Disc systems.

The 5.6mm Sanyo’s compact diode is capable of emitting 450mw, which allows four-layer of Blu-ray burning at the speed of 12x. Current Blu-ray production disc has dual layer of 25GB storage space. A four-layer disc would be able to hold 100G bytes of data, which translates to about eight hours of high-definition video, and at 12X speed all that data could be burned to the disc in just 10 minutes.

As new standards will be needed to support the four-layer format across all manufacturers, it may take a year or two before the production takes place.

Link: PC World