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What would you buy for $200 / EUR 200?
A cheap Blu-ray player
An expensive DVD player
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Posted by Robin van Lieshout
Posted on 27/07/02 20:18
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What is Blu Ray?
 

What is Blu-Ray?

3rd Generation

Blu-ray owes its name from the color of the 405 nanometer used laser (Blue/Violet) to read and write data on the Blu-ray Discs (BD).

Blu-ray can contain 27GB, which can be read at 36MB/s on single speed.
Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd., Tokushima, Japan.


Blue lasers aren't new. The first blue laser diode was developed in 1996 by Shuji Nakamura, researcher at Nichia Corp. More information about him can be found here : http://www.sciencewatch.com/jan-feb2000/sw_jan-feb2000_page3.htm.
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Cool post, Mr. Belvedere. ;)

Great info on the BD. So, when's the expo on the 130GB CD3?

Later,
nEXusJ
I thought there were so little reactions, I felt compassion with Mr. Belvedere. So once again: nice article. ;)
Ok. Great article... but... Why are they using MPEG2? We live in a world where MPEG4 has taken over(divx). All they need to do is creat a MPEG4 for super high resolutions(1080p).

Same with audio. By that time we will have DD10.2 or something like it. Audio should be encoded in WMA8(divx audio) or MP3PRO.
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