1.   And like the Sony players, Aiwa antiskip models will include technologies that permit the player to quickly adjust the laser pickup vertically and horizontally.

2.   Fine access quickly resets the laser pickup if it is bumped so it can resume reading the CDs digital music data without interruption.

3.   Quick focus permits the CD player to almost instantaneously regain the focus of its laser pickup when it is jarred.

4.   The company has branched out into the manufacture of electronic components such as refrigerator compressors, batteries, flash memory chips and laser pickups for compact discs.

5.   Winners in the digital era could be the makers of components, such as laser pickups for the video disk player or key semiconductors.

6.   Sanyo said the key to the higher density was the use of short wavelength laser pickup to read information on the disc.