Pham Dinh Vien

Professionals working with a lot of data on a daily basis might find it hard to transport massive amounts of data around and might loose a lot of valuable data in the process. Movie lovers might find that the quality of a standard DVD is not good enough. A lot of problems and inefficiencies occur even in today’s digital world.

A new device was introduced to the market recently, giving much needed respite to these issues. This new device is called the blu ray disc. It’s just like a normal DVD, or is it? One thing is for sure, it has more capabilities. The name “blu ray disc” was given to it because of the special data reader it has. The standard DVD is being read by a red laser, while the new blu ray disc has to be read by the state of the art blue laser.

Then what’s so special about a disc that needs a blue laser? You may ask. Well there are many advanced qualities in the blu ray disc. One of them is the enormous storage capacity. A normal DVD would carry about 5 GB storage capacities. While a blu ray disc can go up to about ten times of that. A dual layer blu ray disc will carry about 50 GB while a single layer blu ray disc will carry close to 25 GB in storage space.

Well if you only use DVDs for movies, games and music you might find that information a bit useless. Even though the increased storage capabilities means the ability to store about 10 movies, as many games or hundreds of audio tracks in a single blu ray disc. How impressive is that.

But all you movie lovers will have better news. The increased high definition effects for both audio and video in the blu ray disc will provide the viewer or listener with an experience of something out of this world. Home theatre has never been better than this. Movie theatres might have to be a bit careful.

Also, all gamers out there would find the same special qualities when playing a game on your Play station, Xbox or Nintendo using blu ray disc. Advanced special features and high definition

Consumer producers of blu ray discs would also find a lot of advanced features that will suit the business needs like advanced security and anti piracy features. Regional codes will also mean that market segmentation and specialization would be much easier than before.

People are embracing this new technology rather gleefully around the world and why shouldn’t they. Blu ray discs should be available for everyone any time soon. Keep your fingers crossed till then.

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