It’s a good thing that Dr Evil’s sharks use red laserbeams, because blue laser diodes are in short supply at this time. You already know this…blue lasers are used in HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives and players to read the new hi-def DVDs. Well, it seems that Sony is diverting their blue diode sources for use in PS3 console manufacturing, and the company that currently produces 80% of blue lasers is only able to attain a 30% yield rate. The bottom line? Richard Baguley sums it up nicely:

“This won’t mean the players will disappear, but it may mean that prices will stay high until the shortage is fixed sometime early next year. It may also force some manufacturers to forgo launching new products until then: if they can’t get the lasers, they can’t build the players.”

(Via Camcorderinfo)