alexander Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 NEC has developed first half-size optical drive that can read HD DVDs, DVDs and CD using a single optical head. They are planning to put it into production at the end of next year.here's a link to the full article:http://www.physorg.com/news2440.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINNY Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 hmm... I spotted a another article there - Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004. The winner was 'Water on Mars'. They say it must've been a propaganda for NASA to get more funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINNY Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 what does it mean by half-height size? that picture seems to show a normal sized cd drive to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted December 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 well, they actually developed the drive to be able to fit a laptop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINNY Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 no, this is what was said: Half height size capable of installation in desktop PCs.- Realization of the completed prototype by integration of all the functions compactly including the 3-generation compatible optical head.- Reduction of the size to meet those of the average current DVD/CD compatible drives through the development of a compact circuit board utilizing 3-generation-compatible system LSI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 And is it blue? (which rhythms with 2, as in 22) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted December 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Sorry tinny, i said that wrong (you know how sometimes you think about one thing, then read another and accidentally answer to the thing in terms of what you thought about before reading the question), i meant to say that in order to release this thing publically they need to produce a laptop version of the device, they have a year ahead to work on it, I hope they dont waste it. As to half height size, i can only guess that there were a lot of components that go into the thing, and cd/dvd rw's really dont have that much space inside, so they must have had a taller version of the device earlier, but now that they started utilizing the boards more efficiently, they were able to fit all the contents inside a regular CD rom-size drive, box, thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINNY Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 yeah, probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted December 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 that seem logical? its just a guess, but who knows what they meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINNY Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 aww come on. your the tech nerd here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted December 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Ok, ok, I am...We just got a G5 in at school, so pretty, hate the setup, hey does anyone know how to get rid of the IE on there? Is it just the drag of the icon from applications to the trash bin? Bash isnt showing that ie is there, but its weird bash so it might not have to, what have they done with the "ps" command, its not right, aaagh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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