If you've become interested as I have in the emerging next-generation video standards contest, here's a good place to start: Blue-ray.com. The site from the Blue-ray Disc Association (BDA) covers the basics on the one side of the battle line.
The other major contender is HD DVD, backed by a group of companies and studios through the DVD Forum. I'll be covering that soon.
The strategies & tactics on display in this important entertainment standards war will be a great show. Sony will not want to be Betamax'd again and will be on its metle. Opponents may have learned just as much as Sony, however; so it will be a competitive match this time around.
Among the key technicals behind Blue-ray is its use of a blue-violet laser rather than a red laser (used for CD and DVD). The blue laser's shorter wavelength permits data to be packed more densely on the disc medium, providing the higher capacity necessary to fit movie-length content in a High-Definition format (more data) on a single disc.
Old | CD/DVD | Red Laser | 650 nanometers | 5GB
New | Blue-ray | Blue Laser | 405 nanometers | 25GB
Giving Blue-ray a blue-chip feel, 170 companies are backing it, including the following...
- Apple
- Dell
- Hitachi
- hp
- JVC
- LG
- Mitsubishi
- Panasonic
- Pioneer
- Philips
- Samsung
- Sharp
- Sony
- TDK; and
- Thomson
Blue ray will be in all upcoming future consoles.
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Posted by: AmniPata | October 17, 2007 at 09:36 PM
BluRay players are most def the future and the HD DVD era is just going to be something in the past. BluRay players all the way!!!
Posted by: Justin M | March 13, 2008 at 02:40 PM