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Plasmon Exhibits Working Blue Laser DVD Drive
tedgyz writes "CDR-Info has an article describing the first working prototype of a blue-violet laser optical disk drive. The drive boasts 30GB of storage, dubbed Ultra Density Optical (UDO). The article has technical details and images of the drive and media." We've been hearing about the advantages of blue light for seemingly years now. It's cool to see a product prepare for market that actually uses it.
We'll see this soon... does that mean before or after Duke Nukem Forever
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
We've been hearing about the advantages of blue light for seemingly years now.
We can't stop with blue light! We need to branch out into purple, yellow, even magenta! Soon all the colours of the world will be under our umbrella, and we will be all powerful!
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(Beats those shadows on the cave wall, don't it?)
It supports the new UDO disks and it is developed for professional data storage markets, covering archiving, document imaging, call centers, email archiving, GIS, medical, telecom, banking, insurance, legal and government.
... and for the non-professional data storage of personal pictures, pr0n pictures, legal music, pirated music, movies, and pr0n videos.
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The laser's woman done him wrong...
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
I have always been wary about purchasing a so-called "red laser" DVD unit due to the historical ties that the color red has to Communism. Communism, as you are probably aware, resulted in hundreds of millions of death in the 20th Century. I could not, as a moral man, purchase a laser of this color. Who could sit down and watch Attack of the Clones without thoughts of the Soviet gulags distracting you?
Blue is the color of capitalism. It is also the color of patriotism and masculinity (as opposed to red, which is very close to the feminine color of pink.) It warms the heart to know that I can now watch my John Wayne collection on a moral device that is consistent with the ideals that I donned my country's uniform for in Grenada and Panama.
Don't worry, in a few years you will be able to pick these up for $200 in a blue light special. Of couse by then they'll be too small to be really useful, like your CDs are now.
I read the internet for the articles.
But in about ten years, they will combine this technology with that technology and dub it "Density Optical Hybrid" (DOH!).
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(you heard it here first, get used to it)
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RTFJ.
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So when can I get my blue laser pen?
Please, everybody, buy these drives! Drive the price down so I can get it three years from now.
-ZOD-
When the Black Lite lasers finally come out we'll finally be able to store trillions of Elvis and sad dog pictures.
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I thought she was scheduled to appear on an album cover wearing this technology.
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I believe you pull out the cartridge, flip the drive over, and then insert the cartridge again.