Blue Ray DVD – An Overview

Posted by tomgreen on December 3, 2009

When technology changes, it’s normal for anyone to be confused by the terms used for new products and innovations that enter the market. One such confusion occurred with the arrival of the blue ray DVD. We were always familiar with the traditional type of DVD, so what exactly is this blue ray DVD to hit the market?

The blue ray DVD reader uses a blue laser to read data out of the disc unlike the normal red laser used to read DVDs. A blue ray DVD can be played using a blue ray DVD player and nothing else. You may wonder why this is the case especially when CDs, VCDs, etc can be played on a normal DVD player. Well, the difference lies in the laser that’s being used to read the data on the disc.

The format war, between HD DVDs and blue ray DVDs saw a lot of development in the data storage devices in the world. Finally Toshiba who was mainly involved with HD DVD stepped out and canceled the HD DVD project. After that the leading company’s of the world, has come together under and outfit called the blue-ray disc association (BDA).

A main advantage of the new blue ray DVD is its storage capacity. It can store up to five times the storage capacity of a normal DVD. a single layer DVD can store up to 25 GB while a dual layer DVD can store up to 50 GB in any kind of data. This could prove to be absolutely brilliant for a person who needs a small but handy way to store large volumes of data. Like a researcher.

Another quality of the blue ray DVD is its use of improved and advance audio and video codecs. High definition movies can easily and impressively fit into one of these blur ray DVDs. The viewer can store and watch more than twenty high definition movies using a single blue ray DVD. It all uses java software support.

Digital rights management is another aspect of security it gives to producers and users of blue ray DVDs. The regional codes that are also available in discs may give more control to whole sale producers of blue ray DVDs such as motion picture companies. It may help in market segmentation and also help companies to produce in accordance with regional values and beliefs.

Also there are many variations when it comes to blue ray DVDs, such as mini blue ray DVD, blue ray DVD recordable, BD5 and BD 9 and also a variation called avcrec. For all movie lovers, gamers and workaholics alike the blue ray DVD is what you need for your future. Switch to it as soon as possible.

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