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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Blu-Ray is bigger and better (25G / 50G)


Blu-Ray:
"Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format.

While current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD-RAM use a red laser to read and write data, the new format uses a blue-violet laser instead, hence the name Blu-ray. Despite the different type of lasers used, Blu-ray products can easily be made backwards compatible through the use of a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical pickup and allow playback of CDs and DVDs. The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) is that it has a shorter wavelength than a red laser (650nm), which makes it possible to focus the laser spot with even greater precision. This allows data to be packed more tightly and stored in less space, so it's possible to fit more data on the disc even though it's the same size as a CD/DVD. This together with the change of numerical aperture to 0.85 is what enables Blu-ray Discs to hold 25GB/50GB."

2 Comments:

  • You think Blu-Ray will beat HD DVD-R (or whatever the other one is)?

    By Blogger sarahintampa.com, at 11:17 PM EST  

  • Blue-Ray is being looked at by some very large companies so alot of people think it has a chance.

    With technology its not who is better its who is better at marketing. So really, only time will tell.

    By Blogger Veign, at 11:43 PM EST  

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