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What is Blue Ray Disc?

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Navneel21 Original post #1
Jul 19, 2006 at 1:18 PM
Can anyone tell me in detail about Blue Ray disc. I have heard that it has 200 GB capacity?
PrinceHeart
Jul 19, 2006 at 3:11 PM
Its called Blu-Ray Disc
Browse these sites: These might help you -

*www.blu-ray.com/info/
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
*www.blu-raydisc.com/

if you still want more info : try Yahoo/Google search on "blu-ray disc"

cheerz
Desmond
Desmond #3
Jul 19, 2006 at 3:41 PM
Blu-Ray is a disc standard developed by Sony alongwith few other companies. It has a good encryption and a behemoth of storage space.

Hope it will release soon.
blueshift
Jul 19, 2006 at 7:06 PM
And it is a strong competitor to HD-DVD.
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rskbug #5
Jul 19, 2006 at 11:19 PM
And a Samsung blue ray burner costs 500$.
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janitha #6
Jul 20, 2006 at 7:32 AM
rskbug said:
And a Samsung blue ray burner costs 500$.

Remember the early years when we bought CD Drives and DVD drives at astronomical prices. So we can expect to get them at the price of a DVD writer but only after many years.

Also like the issue of Betamax vs VHS standard in the early eighties, it is still not clear which will survive, Blue Ray or HD DVD.
shanket
shanket #7
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:00 PM
B-R disc is a proprietary type of sony....
a br disc is equivallent to 5 conventional dvds
go_gamez
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:04 PM
i hope ...blu-ray will be in inda at the same time its there all over the world..and will get affordable....faster...
Venom
Venom #9
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:11 PM
From Wiki about its capacity

A single-layer Blu-ray disc (BD) has enough storage capacity (25GB) for approximately two hours of high-definition video with audio. A dual-layer (50GB) BD can hold enough data for approximately four hours of HD video. TDK recently announced that they have created a working Blu-ray disc capable of holding 200GB of data (six 33GB data layers).
go_gamez
go_gamez #10
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:17 PM
that is great..i just cant belive at the speed technology is progressing.
Venom
Venom #11
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:18 PM
^^
Its difficult for us consumers too, we cant keep at pace nor afford it!
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janitha #12
Jul 21, 2006 at 11:00 PM
go_gamez said:
i hope ...blu-ray will be in inda at the same time its there all over the world..and will get affordable....faster...

As of now if at all it becomes available here, the cheapset drive is likely to cost much more than Rs.25000/- and you can imagine the price of the blank discs. Of course it will become affordable over time.
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Jul 24, 2006 at 9:37 AM
soon every one shall have collection of all movies in his home library