Blu-ray vs. HD DVD Format War Continues into 2008
by Mary J. Clark
This month, Blu-ray may have won a decisive battle in the war for supremacy in high definition DVD technology. Warner Brothers Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing their high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray format after May of this year.
Blu-ray is named for the short-wavelength, blue-violet (blu-) optical laser (ray) used to read and write data with this technology. The Blu-ray Disc (BD) Association is composed of more than 180 member companies, including such notables as Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Sun, and Walt Disney Pictures. For detailed information, please visit Blu-ray.com.
HD DVD - a red laser format - is not quite ready to wave the white flag, but the "general consensus" among the technical set seems to be that with its larger storage capacity, Blu-ray will probably triumph - and sooner rather than later.
We anticipate manufacturers to start making BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read only memory), BD-R (recordable), and BD-RE (rewritable) drives available in new PCs soon. Blu-ray very well may be the next generation optical disc format for PC data storage.
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