By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I’ve said before I didn’t want to be stuck with a DVD-version of Betamax, by buying the wrong format in the DVD standards war. Well, Ricoh may have come to the rescue, though the resulting technology is likely to be pretty expensive.
Trying to bridge the gap between next-generation optical disk formats, Ricoh said it has developed an optical component that reads and writes all disk formats—Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD, as well as DVD and CD—with one pickup and one objective lens. Ricoh will show the optical device at the International Optoelectronics Exhibition ‘06 outside Tokyo on July 12-14. Source: EE Times
We Say: How long until a drive that can write both formats? Ricoh says it will come, but it requires a higher power laser, so the initial rollout will be players only.
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