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China starts producing DVD-lasers

Written by Jari Ketola @ 15 Apr 2003 4:53 User comments (1)

China starts producing DVD-lasers A Chinese company called Hechuan Photoelectrics has developed, and patented their own version of the DVD-laser optical pickup used in every DVD-player to read data from disc. They will be investing more than $50 million in a factory to produce the parts.
This is great news for the Chinese DVD-market -- until now Chinese DVD-player manufacturers have had to rely on imported DVD-heads. Domestic manufacturing the key components of a DVD player will most definitely boost sales in China. And I'm sure we'll see the players marketed abroad as well.

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the inquirer

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115.4.2003 22:24

First a laser, next a cure for SARS !

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