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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about blu-ray disc media?
Allow the experts at Maxell to help answer your questions about blu-ray
discs. Also, don't forget to browse through our most frequently asked
questions (FAQs) for
answers on other topics. If you have a question that you would like to
have answered, please email it to
info@rmeinc.com.
Blu-ray discs, also know as BD, is a new form of
technology that utilizes a blue-violet
laser to read and write data.
This is very different from the current industry standard,
which uses a red laser
to read and write data onto CD and DVD discs. Blu-ray discs support high definition
video and is backed by the Blu-ray Disc Association along with leading manufacturers such
as
Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, HP as well as Walt Disney
Pictures, Warner Bros.
Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, and more.
Blu-ray discs can be used to burn movies, music, data, and
more. These discs are
capable
of storing up to 5 times the amount of information as a
single DVD. They
come
in two formats, single layer or double layer discs.
A single layer blu-ray disc has the
capability of holding up to 25GB
of data while the double layer can hold up to 50GB.
A 50GB blu-ray discs can hold over 9 hours of HD video or 50
hours of standard video. Blu-ray discs can be
recordable (write once only) or rewriteable.
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- Are there different formats for blu-ray discs?
Currently there are three different formats
for blu-ray discs.
BD-ROM discs are read-only (used for HD
movies, music, software, games, etc)
BD-R discs are recordable, write-once
(used
for video recording and PC data storage)
BD-RE are rewritable blu-ray discs
(used for
video recording and PC data storage)
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- Is Blu-ray the same thing as HD DVD?
No. Blu-ray discs and HD DVD are different types of
optical disc media. Although, both rely on blue laser technology, the format
for blu-ray discs and HD DVD is different. This
means that blu-ray discs will not play on an HD DVD
player and vice versa. HD DVD was developed by Tobisha and
NEC and is backed by Microsoft, Intel, Paramount,
Universal, and more. HD DVDs can either be
single sided (15GB capacity) or double sided (30GB
capacity).
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