BluRay – How It Stores So Much Data

Well, these day we commonly hear about Blu Ray disc and some of US use it too. Some of us even know what it is ? and How much capability is has. But very few of us know details about it. This article will tell you everything about Blu Ray in detail.

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Blu Ray Technology was developed and released by Sony at the time when HD DVD was well known to people and movie viewer has started buying High Definition Video Disc and player a lot.  A lot of movies were released in HD DVD format and viewer Buy them a lot as they already have a HD DVD player at home. Just when HD DVD was going to have Monopoly in High Definition User experience Sony announce launch of Blu Ray format.

During Launch Sony claimed that Blu Ray disc have much higher capacity and better Data transfer rate than any other format available in market. They also claimed that this will rule the world of HD and Data capacity in a disc for a long time. Blu Ray disc can store 5-10 times data in a single Disc of same size as DVD, but problem is Sony make it in such a way that it will require a proper Blu Ray Drive/Burner to use this format.

These disc can not be played in existing DVD Drive/ Player or HD players. Now Sony released several movies which were exclusively available in Blu ray format for High Definition format and can not be watched on existing HD DVD Players. This really helped Sony to increase their market share in High Definition video market.

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