Blu-ray Disc Blu-ray Disc (BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick‚ the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer‚ with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the norm for feature-length video discs. Triple layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple layers (128 GB) are available for BD-XL re-writer drives.[2] The major application of Blu-ray Discs is as a medium for video material such as feature
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The Arrival of Blu-ray Technology Blu-ray- also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD)‚ is the name of a next-generation optical disc format which was jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA)‚ a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics‚ personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple‚ Dell‚ Hitachi‚ HP‚ JVC‚ LG‚ Mitsubishi‚ Panasonic‚ Pioneer‚ Philips‚ Samsung‚ Sharp‚ Sony‚ TDK and Thomson). As compared to the current optical disc format such as DVD‚ this new format allows
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factors do you think influenced whether (1) consumers‚ (2) retailers or (3) movie producers supported Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Answer No.1: 1) The consumers can be divided into two groups: Early adopters and the majority. In this case‚ early adopters tend to follow technology. But for majority‚ the size of the installation base on format is the most important thing. Consumers who are affected by the Blu-ray technology is based on the brand loyalty. They prefer to SONY brand. In addition‚ consumers don’t
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The name Blu-ray is a combination of “Blue” for the color of laser that is used‚ and “ray” for “Optical ray”. The thrust for an advanced format of data storage on optical disc led to revolutionary introduction of BLU-RAY DISC. This advances in the race against its competitors DVD (Digital Video Disc) & AOD (Advanced Optical Disc) in that it has high storage capacity‚ advanced security and privacy features and the A/V high quality O/P (generally video) of the media files stored on it make’s
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Using the Blu-Ray vs DH DVD example‚ and other sources‚ provide advice to a chief executive officer of a firm for the best strategy to deal with a standard battle Candidate Number: 69619 Word Count: 1569 In the VCR market‚ although Betamax format of Sony was the technologically superior t VHS formats of JVC‚ there were still many factors that led to the dominance of VHS over Betamax. Firstly‚ the recording length is a major factor. Compared with the original Sony Betamax video recorder which could
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Case Study ‘Blu-ray versus HD-DVD: A Standards Battle in High-Definition Video’ Discussion Questions 1. What factors do you think influenced whether (1) consumers‚ (2) retailers or (3) movie producers supported Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Every party in this standards battle had its own reasons for chosing one standard over the other. For instance‚ the motives for movie producers to choose Blu-ray were completely different from the motives for consumers to choose Blu-ray. In our opinion‚ the main factors
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1. Introduction Blu-ray is a new optical disc standard based on the use of a blue laser rather than the red laser of today’s DVD players. The standard‚ developed collaboratively by Hitachi‚ LG‚ Matsushita (Panasonic)‚ Pioneer‚ Philips‚ Samsung‚ Sharp‚ Sony‚ and Thomson‚ threatens to make current DVD players obsolete. It is not clear whether new Blu-ray players might include both kinds of lasers in order to be able to read current CD and DVD formats. The new standard‚ developed jointly
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next generation video format. Sony’s Blu-Ray technology was backed by a consortium that included Philips‚ Matsushita‚ Hitachi‚ and others. Toshiba’s HD-DVD had the backing of the DVD Forum‚ making it the “official” successor to the DVD format. Both companies lined up major movie studios and video game consoles to promote their standards (Sony’s Playstation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360). In January 2008‚ Time Warner’s announcement that it would support Blu-Ray instead of HD DVD triggered a chain reaction
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large capacity optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording‚ rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser. By employing a short wavelength blue violet laser‚ the Blu-ray Disc successfully minimizes its beam spot size by making the numerical aperture (NA) on a field lens that converges the laser 0.85. In addition‚ by using a disc structure with a 0
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A Seminar Report on “BLU-RAY DISC” In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology In Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Submitted By:- Epari sawan kumar Regd. No-0901301139 Under the Guidance of:- Manoj Kumar Pattnaik DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION VIGNAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT BERHAMPUR CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the seminar entitled “BLU-RAY DISC” has been submitted by EPARI SAWAN KUMAR
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