Article by Joseph Adon

This next generation optical disc format – Blue Ray DVDs – is a proud development of the Blue Ray Disc Association (BDA) that include HP, Dell, LG, Hitachi, Apple, Samsung, Panasonic, JVC, Sony, Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Sharp, Thomson, and TDK is a remarkable invention of the BDA (Blue Ray Disc Association) that consists of TDK, Thomson, Sharp, Pioneer, Philips, Mitsubishi, Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Samsung, Apple, Hitachi, LG, Dell and HP}. The Blu Ray Disc Association has the globe’s most prominent manufacturers of PCs, consumer electronics and media.



DVDs, lets face it have its days counted. With more and more people upgrading to HDTV to enjoy modern digital television, the need to store high-definition content is also on the rise. But, DVDs support a resolution up to 720×480 pixels while high definition content resolutions are as high as 1920×1080 pixels. HD video content uses up a considerable amount of hard drive space too. High definition content with data compression of about 2 hours duration requires up to twenty-two GB of storage space whereas a DVD-18 disc (dual-sided double-layer) allows a storing capability of seventeen GB only.



The answer to this issue has helped invent two brand-new technologies, namely High Definition DVD and Blue Ray DVDs, which are now locked in an intense battle to clinch market shares and become the successor to DVD. Both these technologies are very similar in nature but the blue ray DVDs have an advantage since these boast a far higher storage capacity than the HD DVD. The blue ray discs, as the name suggests, uses a blue-violet laser to read and write data unlike the current technology which uses red laser. A blue-violet laser (405nm) has a far shorter wavelength than a red laser (650nm) making it feasible to focus the laser spot with superior precision. The advantage of this is that, it permits data to be stored in less space since the data can be packed more tightly, which further, allows consumers to fit additional data on the disc even though it may be the same size as a CD or a DVD.

A single-layer high definition DVD can hold only fifteen GB of data whilst single-layer blue ray DVDs can hold twenty-five GB which amounts to over two hours of HD video and thirteen hours of normal video. A dual-layer HD-DVD can hold up to 30 GB whereas dual-layer blue ray DVDs can store 54 GB which is 4.5hours of high-definition video and more than 20hours of a standard video.



Blue Ray DVDs are easy on the producers too as they are created by injection-molding procedure on a single 1.1-mm disc in contrast to the traditional injection-molding method on a 0.6 mm (High Definition DVD adopts the same process) which in turn cuts down on the costs. The money so saved is spent on the addition of a protective layer necessary on blue ray DVDs and this causes the end price to be more or less same with the current price of a DVD.



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