Blu-Ray – the Best HD Movie Watching Experience
by SMCentral
Blu-Ray – the Best HD Movie Watching Experience
Blu-Ray is the newest technology for optical discs, and is likely to replace the previous broadly used technologies such as DVD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW. It was jointly developed by top consumer electronics and media companies (including Dell, Apple, HP, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Samsung etc) and the Blu-Ray Disc Association. The primary goal was to record, rewrite and playback high-definition motion pictures, while also rising storage capacity.
Blu-rays use a different type of technology than previous disc formats. DVDs and the like use red-laser technology to read and write data, while this new format leans on blue-violet laser – hence the name of Blu-Ray, often misspelled as Blue-Ray. The primary advantage that this blue-violet laser offers is that the laser spot is more focused. This allows for tighter packaging of data, thus increasing the