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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.

[Via Blu-ray.com]

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

New Blu-ray laser from Sharp burns triple, quad layer discs but can’t cut red tape (yet) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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