Sony Shrinks Blu-ray Laser


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Sony has to be in a pretty good mood lately. Not only is their Blu-ray format winning the war, but the company has managed to shrink they Blu-ray laser to a size just shy of 3mm thick. What's that mean? The technology is finally small enough for 9.5mm laptop drives (which could lead to a smaller PS3 design), but maybe even more importantly, the lasers are cheaper and easier to produce (whether or not this cost savings was included in Sony's recent $400 PS3 manufacturing estimate is unknown). Oh, and for film buffs, the new lasers can read organic dye, allowing current DVD plants to more easily retool for Blu-ray production. All in all, this is nothing but good news for everyone.

For Blu-ray, optical disk drive recording playback slimline design [Sony via Gizmodo]

Source: http://kotaku.com/348968/sony-shrinks-blu+...harks-to-follow

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Doesn't mean anything to me until there actually start to be cheaper Blu-Ray players/drives.

Well, you wont be seeing cheaper products if they stay at the same manufacturing costs

- so yeah, it does mean something to you :p

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Well, you wont be seeing cheaper products if they stay at the same manufacturing costs

- so yeah, it does mean something to you :p

Just because they reduce manufacturing costs doesn't mean the players are going to be sold for any cheaper.

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seeing that the format war is not over yet... and HD-DVD player are currently cheaper that Blu-Ray ones...

I would say it's a pretty sure bet that BR players will drop in price, not only becuase of the competition... but also becuase the can

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Just because they reduce manufacturing costs doesn't mean the players are going to be sold for any cheaper.

True - but it certainly wont be sold for any cheaper if manufacturing costs dont go down :p

Price reduction has to start somewhere

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True - but it certainly wont be sold for any cheaper if manufacturing costs dont go down :p

Price reduction has to start somewhere

I never implied anything contrary to what you're saying. I said it doesn't matter to me -- read: I don't care one bit -- until the prices go down.

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