Sony along with Tokyo University has been working on a new laser with a 100 watt output for some time now. Those who remember when the transition from DVD to Blu-ray began to take place heard many similar things between those two formats. Now with this new blue-violet laser, being able to output 20 times more than the lasers used on traditional Blu-rays, each disc could hold 1TB of data or more. Sony calls it the “world’s highest output values for conventional blue-violet pulse semiconductor lasers.” Now of course just because this is being created in the labs it does not mean that it will turn into a product or at least a consumer-based product. So put your pitch forks down, your Blu-ray player is not becoming obsolete already.