6x Blu-ray Drives On The Horizon

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Tokyo (Japan) - Sharp has developed new 250 mW blue-violet laser diodes which promise to bring a substantial speed boost to Blu-ray writers - up from 72 Mb/s today to a maximum of 216 Mb/s.

The 250 mW output of the diodes, the highest achieved in the industry so far according to Sharp, is key to improve the recording speed of Blu-ray writers. Sharp said that the power level is enough to achieve an increase to 4x (144 MB/s) up to 6x (216 Mb/s).

Samples of the new diodes are available at this time, but aren't exactly cheap: Sharp charges 50,000 Yen or about $462 per unit.

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