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Laser Shortage to Stall High-Def Disc War?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the supply-and-demand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DigiTimes reports that several major vendors, including Sony and Matsushita, have suspended shipments of the blue laser diodes that drive both high-def disc formats. The rumored laser shortage could result in shipment delays for new models of Blu-ray and HD DVD players and drives past the upcoming holiday season, cooling the next-gen DVD format war until 2007."

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  1. Animal Cruelty by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Won't ANYBODY think of the sharks!

    They are driving themselves insane out at sea, they were all psyched to go into battle with some kick ass frikkin laser beams on their heads now they have to continue practicing with mop-handles tied on.

    Shame on you Sony.

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    1. Re:Animal Cruelty by Rockinsockindune · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everyone knows they use red lasers for the sharks.

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    2. Re:Animal Cruelty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have had ENOUGH of these motherfucking lasers on these motherfucking sharks!

    3. Re:Animal Cruelty by gbobeck · · Score: 2, Funny
      Everyone knows they use red lasers for the sharks.

      Red lasers for sharks are so 1997, just like ill tempered mutated sea bass. All sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads want to look cool, and therefore only use blue lasers.
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  2. Sharks! by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    I KNEW we were using too many on those damn sharks.

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  3. Illegal collusion to fix the market by topham · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't happen to be intended to delay the adoption of the new players until next year would it, by which time maybe they will figure out how to actually sell a usable product...

    1. Re:Illegal collusion to fix the market by li'l+opie · · Score: 2, Funny

      Delay is a great strategy. Next generation DVD will be the first format to be obsolete before it even launches.

  4. Gee, those marketing people by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just get those green laser pointers over Thinkgeek and rename the product "green ray". Really, blue is cute, but green is okay too...

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  5. meanwhile... by legoburner · · Score: 5, Funny

    meanwhile somewhere on the outskirts of Tokyo, the head of Microsoft's XBOX division and the head of Nintendo's Wii division are shaking hands whilst laughing as their lackeys bolt the doors on a warehouse full to the roof with blue laser diodes.

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  6. Argh! by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Illegal collusion to fix the market - Wouldn't happen to be intended to delay the adoption of the new players until next year would it, by which time maybe they will figure out how to actually sell a usable product...

    There was no way in heck I was going to get one of these damn things anyway.

    But now, now I feel I must have one! Aaarrrggghhhhh!

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  7. Clearly this is bad news for Sony. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly this is very bad news for Sony.

    Because... you know, everything is, somehow.

  8. just in time by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The rumored laser shortage could result in shipment delays for new models of Blu-ray and HD DVD players and drives past the upcoming holiday season, cooling the next-gen DVD format war until 2007.

    Great! That's just in time for me to NOT BUY ONE.

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  9. In a related move by shwonline · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pioneer has suspended shipments of Sony-compatible pixels for its high-definition displays.

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  10. Wrong Joke for "Blue Laser" by pete-classic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sharks? Losers. How about:

    Does this mean I can no longer buy all their playsets and toys?!

    -Peter

    1. Re:Wrong Joke for "Blue Laser" by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Funny

      The fact that I get this joke makes me a sad panda.

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    2. Re:Wrong Joke for "Blue Laser" by rsilvergun · · Score: 2, Funny

      That reminds me of the time I was shamed by getting your reference to yet another unrelated cartoon... { cut to zany flashback skit }

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    3. Re:Wrong Joke for "Blue Laser" by roesti · · Score: 2, Funny

      I just imagine the CEOs of Sony and Matsushita yelling "I just hate you so much!!!"

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  11. Sony's strategy by monopole · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Increase PS3 and Blu-Ray drive costs.
    2. Declare ultimate hardware DRM system (no lasers) ensuring that drives cannot read or write any discs.
    3. Openly fret that prices are too low.
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

  12. Format wars ... when will people learn? by slackarse · · Score: 2, Funny

    One Format to rule them all, One Format to find them, One Format to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

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  13. Re:Those who do not learn from their OWN history.. by NewToNix · · Score: 4, Funny
    Those who do not learn from their OWN history... are doomed to repeat it!
    And those that DO learn from their own history, are simply doomed to repeat it several more times, hoping for a different outcome...

  14. Ahh, I get it by DingerX · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...because Sony wants the PS3 with Blu-Ray to copy the success of the PSP with UMD, but on a bigger scale?

  15. Re:Looks like someone forgot to RTFA by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because they found out what blue lasers did to the local critters and they are desperately trying to find a way to do some damage control before the press finds out where all those tsunamis in the indian ocean really come from ?

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