Taiwan unveils their own Blue laser pick up head

April 8, 2005

Looks
like the Taiwanese Opto-Electronics & Systems lab (OES) has let it slip that
they know a thing or two about Blue lasers too! They had the pleasure to
introduce Taiwan's first self-developed blue-laser DVD pick-up head at a
press conference in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The
blue-laser DVD PUH conforms to the HD-DVD standard, the next-generation
blue-laser DVD format developed by Toshiba and NEC, and will be initially
used in read only DVD drives, according to OES deputy director Der-ray
Huang.

OES will offer the PUH to interested local IC design houses
and makers of optical discs for developing and testing of blue-laser DVD
products, Huang said. Blue-laser DVD products are expected to become
commercial in two or three years, according to
Huang.