For the demand of high storage capacity in the future, HD-DVD system will be the mainstream of next-generation optical storage system, and blue-violet laser diode pickup head is the key component of this system. Hence, development of GaN-based blue-violet blue laser diodes has become the key technology in the recent years. At the moment, room temperature pulse-operation blue-violet laser diodes are demonstrated at OES/ITRI. The lasing wavelength is 419 nm, and the threshold current density is 6 kA/cm^2. By reducing the dislocation density to last the device lifetime, room temperature continuous-wave operation will be realized.