Is Sony developing a new laser to replace Blu-ray?

a contemporary announcement from Sony researchers revealed the improvement on a new variety of blue-violet ultrafast pulsed laser for optical disks. Feels like it’d be time to modify formats again!

To be fair Sony just announced they were developing the laser, they didn’t actually say anything about bringing it to market yet, or perhaps if it was intended to exchange the current Blu-ray format. What they did reveal is that the hot laser is in a position to reading a disk that has 20 times the capacity of the current generation of optical storage. Which means a blue-violet based player can have more then 50 movies on one disk, or (even more likely) fit a whole season of a TV show on one disk. That could certainly help clean up my Netflix queue!

[via Slashdot]