It's not entirely clear how this is going to affect the balance of power in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray deathmatch -- each format relies on 405 nm blue-violet laser diodes, so each may be equally ...

But on the other hand Sony is now able to get blue laser diodes for $8 a pop. This means that they will "potentially" be able to drop prices on Blu-ray players sometime this year.

Despite their well-documented incompatibility, both Blu-ray and HD DVD use blue laser technology to, among other things, greatly enhance their storage capabilities. But unlike both DVD formats that ...

Blu-ray is one of two high-definition disc formats introduced to consumers in 2006. Along with its rival, HD-DVD, Blu-ray expanded the depth, color, and detail of the images you see.

Since manufacturers of blue laser diodes are still unable to improve yield rates, the shortage may result in pushing back the competition between Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD optical disc drives ...

[andre] sent in his first attempt at using a HD-DVD laser diode to expose photosensitive resist to create PC boards. We’ve been meaning to give this a shot with the ol’ Epilog laser cutter ...

Check out this 3mm thick Blu-Ray laser that Sony and Nichia came up with. ... Maybe they'll even get down to HD-DVD player prices so we can all find out which one really is more popular.

Go grab that Xbox 360 HD DVD drive and give it new life with this mod. What you’re going to do is rip it apart and make a sweet-ass laser pointer/gun sight/cat teaser. It’s not like you’re ...

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, if ...

-- New Laser Diode Driver IC Enables Development of Extremely Small and Cost-efficient Designs Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced ...

As much as we like to talk about the ongoing format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD and our readers comment on it, the simple fact is that very few of us actually own either format yet. This is ...