I do believe that man has condoms on his hands. My goodness, his fingers must be monstrous!

why?

Goodness Longshot, you do know they make finger condoms right?

Sometimes they're used for food handlers who have a cut finger and a bandaid over it, in order to prevent the nasty, and likely infected bandaid from touching the food.

love those finger-doms or kids size condoms.

So... they get entire Bluray players? Can't they get hold of just the drive? Or the laser unit manufacturers? Their way seems completely roundabout and expensive, like buying a whole new car when you want a replacement seat for your old one.

what the hell is the point (no pun intended)?

why climb mount everest?

the point?? BLUE!!! how many people do you know that have BLUE lasers??

ya, and about buying a whole blu-ray player? these diodes are very hard to manufacture, and EVERY SINGLE ONE is going to these players, therefore they must buy the players to get the diode.

If they are so rare, I still think I would rather watch movies with my blue laser than just point at things in blue instead of red or green then.

Rob C, the point, your point, that the reason for destroying the blueray players to create blue lasers as if to fulfill an unmet demand is moot as there is already a ready supply of um for Grand less:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/896a/

Couldn't Wicked Laser just use the Sony BWU100A and save like $250? Yes, they may be mad scientist but thrifty they are not. It's not like they need the other video bits in the box after they have "extracted" the blu-ray diode so there seems no reason to buy the $1000 model.

Gee...That SON-AR font reminds me of some other company font that starts with SON ... just can't put my finger on it though.

Uh... Why not just get a HD-DVD drive? They use the same blue lasers as well, and you can just rip it out of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon! Which is 1/5th the price of the Blu-Ray player if all you're gonna do is rip out the laser.

The horror! The Horror!

Not justified. Silly blue toy wand < Blu-Ray Player

And this is obscene!! Electronic parts being groped by finger condoms...oh the decadence.

Why rip up a BLU-RAY? Sure you can get blue lasers cheaper, but they are in the 460nm range. yeah that's pretty neat and even Wicked Lasers sells them too. BLU-RAY lasers are actually at the bottom end of the safe visible violet light range at 405nm, commonly referred to as "near ultraviolet" or NUV, a very beautiful color that can excite many common objects to flouresce amazing colors in the higher visible light range. These lasers are truly rare, and with these players being the hottest item in the AV world, yep! every 405nm laser diode available is going into them. So why such a high frequency light? Simple, it can be focused tighter than higher wavelengths - such as green 423nm or red light around 460nm and thus the data bits makin'yer movie can be packed in tighter givin you better resulution and length. Why not an even higher wavelength, such as the true UV range 400nm, 395nm, even up to 266nm wavelentghs? Because the cost would be truly astronomical as these devices cannot be produced in laser diode form at this time in a consistant manner in the power outputs needed. There! I said my bit, now 'bout those rubbers - those be "finger cots" and are used to get a grip on things, no pun intended!