Blu-ray is the next-generation digital video disc. It can record, store and play back high-definition video and digital audio, as well as computer data. The advantage to Blu-ray is the sheer amount of information it can hold:

* A single-layer Blu-ray disc, which is roughly the same size as a DVD, can hold up to 27 GB of data -- that's more than two hours of high-definition video or about 13 hours of standard video.

* A double-layer Blu-ray disc can store up to 54 GB, enough to hold about 4.5 hours of high-definition video or more than 20 hours of standard video. And there are even plans in the works to develop a disc with twice that amount of storage.



Blu-ray Advantages

* record high-definition television (HDTV) without any quality loss
* instantly skip to any spot on the disc
* record one program while watching another on the disc
* create playlists
* edit or reorder programs recorded on the disc
* automatically search for an empty space on the disc to avoid recording over a program
* access the Web to download subtitles and other extra features

Discs that can hold 54 gigs of data, not bad i say,making the old hard drive almost obsolete.You can store most of your data on one disc, making it easier to take with you, rather stored on your computer.

the new PS3's comming out r using Blue Ray Disk, while apparently the new Nintendo Console is only using dvd disks lololol noobs

that sounds gd, apparently my brothers new laptop burns blu-ray or something like that i heard him say. i dunno

roflmaoooooo n00bs lol

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Fight between Blu-ray, HD-DVD bad for everyone
Dan Nystedt and Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

09/01/2006 08:11:38

The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major U.S. technology products retailer said Friday.

"The damage the industry does to itself by not choosing a format is enormous," said Brad Anderson, vice chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Best Buy Co., one of the largest U.S. consumer electronics and appliances retail chains. "Two incompatible formats is as much a nightmare as you can make for consumers," he added.

The competing technologies are Blu-ray, the high-definition video disc format backed by Sony and several other major vendors, against HD-DVD, which is backed by the DVD Forum and companies including Toshiba, NEC, Intel and Microsoft.

The difference in storage space is huge: regular DVDs can hold 4.7GB of music, movies and other data, while Blu-ray can carry 25GB of data and HD-DVD, 15GB. But despite some other advantages for each of the two new formats, the companies backing them have been unable to compromise on a single standard.

Now, both groups appear ready to let consumers decide the winner, just like the 1980s video cassette recorder fight between VHS versus Betamax.

Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO of Sony, said talks between the Blu-ray and HD-DVD camps broke down some time ago for a number of reasons, and that now the factions are at a point where it's difficult to step back from their positions.

"There's no question that a format war is not a good idea but I don't see what we can do about it except push on and convince everybody that a revolutionary high-definition disc (Blu-ray) is better than an evolutionary high-definition disc (HD-DVD)," he said during a news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

"We'll weigh the consequences and costs versus convincing the customer that if you are actually going to change your DVD format you'd better change it to something that dazzles you rather than something that is an evolutionary improvement," he added.

im not even gonna get into this one....

VHS/Betamax den lene tipota...and the better technology died on the market during that battle...also developed by Sony. 30 years later they come up with something good again, will we be settling for second best again?

A holographic disk is alot better than the blu-ray...theoretically ou can hold over a trilabite

LOL.. that quote says it all!! God luv ya vagg0s!!