[Shu-cdromlan] Companies Settle on Blue-LASER DVD Standard

[Greg Gibbs]

>From NewsScan Daily, 19 February 2002, just because this list was
getting too quiet again :-)  Severely <snipped> for your reading
pleasure.  -  g^2


NewsScan Daily, 19 February 2002 ("Above The Fold")
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COMPANIES SETTLE ON BLUE-LASER DVD STANDARD
Nine consumer electronics companies have agreed to back a uniform standard
for next-generation blue-laser DVDs. Blue-laser light, with a shorter
wavelength than the red variety, can be concentrated into a finer beam,
enabling it to read and write significantly more data on a given area of
disc space. "We are not so far away from producing (blue-laser DVDs) in
mass quantities," says a Philips Electronics spokesman, who added that the
pact was intended "to end speculation on what we wanted to do with blue
laser and to show a uniform face." Joining in the pact are Philips, Sony,
Matsushita, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sharp, Samsung, LG Electronics and Thomson
Multimedia. Licensing of the new format will begin in the spring. (Reuters
19 Feb 2002)
http://www1.excite.com/home/technology/tech_article/0,2109,211669|technology|02-19-2002::06:48|reuters,00.html

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