Blu-ray is a disc format that was created a few years ago from the agreement of the world’s top producers of electronics for consumers. Some of the companies who wanted to create Blu-ray include Dell, Apple, HP, JVC, Panosonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and more.
The modern Blu-ray format was created to enable the recording and playback of HD video, and also so large amounts of video data could be saved on one disc. This new video format offers you incredible visual clarity and provides more than 5x the capacity of storage of normal dvds. It may hold as much as 25GB on one disc. Additionally, it can hold up to 50 GB on a disc with two layers. The high capacity of the discs, when bundled with advanced HD video capability, gives electronic consumers today a way greater chance to experience incredible HD on their home TVs.
Almost all the other disc technologies on the market, including dvd, utilize a red laser to be able to write data and read it. The modern Blu-ray format features a laser that is blue-violet. The types of lasers that are used is different, but Blu-ray discs can be made to be compatible with CD and dvd players with an optical unit that is made in particular for such players.
The major benefit with Blu-ray is that the wavelength of it is shorter than a red laser. This means that you may focus that laser using a higher degree of precision. This means that more, high quality data can be used on a Blu-ray disc.
These days, Blu-ray is backed up by hundreds of the world’s top consumer electronics companies, as well as companies that make computers, recording devices, video games and music devices. The new Blu-ray format is also supported by all of the studios in Hollywood. It is supported by all major players as the successor to the fading dvd format. Just about all movie studios now release their movies in Blu-ray together with dvd. It’s predicted that dvd movies won’t be around in a few more years. The quality of the audio and video on Blu-ray discs is so superior.
If you need to get a Blu-ray player, you can buy a device that is specially designed to play Blu-ray discs, or it also can play dvd discs. However, most people are simply getting a Playstation 3. These video consoles double as a Blu-ray player, so it is an affordable way to have Blu-ray in the home.