BLU-RAY DISC v/s HD DVD

By : nikunj

HISTORY
HD DVD BLUE RAY
Blu-ray disc (BD): --- 25/50 GB -Next generation optical disc format. -Developed by blu-ray disc association (which includes Apple, Hitachi, HP, LG, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony) -Wavelength of laser which reads data: 405 nm -Color of laser: Blue-violet which was developed by SHUJI NAKAMURA at NICHIA CORPORATION

The DVD Forum (which

was chaired by Toshiba) was deeply split

The HD-DVD format, developed

and proposed by Toshiba & NEC was introduced to the DVD Forum in November of 2003 and approved as the next-generation DVD format. It was developed to store highdefintion videos to get its full effect for HDTV. This is the only high definition format which is approved by the DVD forum

Comparision

FORMAT OF Blueray disc

It comes in four different formats: BD-ROM (read only) : for reading recorded content. BD-R (recordable) : for PC data storage. BD-RW (rewritable) : for PC data storage. BD-RE (rewritable) : for HDTV (high definition television) recording.

TYPES OF BD:
SINGLE LAYER :
- Can hold data up to 25/27 GB that means 2

hrs of HD video or about 13 hrs of standard video. DOUBLE LAYER :

- Can hold data up to 50 GB that means 4.5

hrs of HD video or more than 20 hrs of standard video.

THE TECHNOLOGY
Pits : spiral grooves that
run from the centre of the disc to its edges Bumps : other sides of these edges. Track pitch : it is the distance between the two tracks (of pits) on the surface. -------------------------------Disc store digitally encoded data in PITS. --------------------------------

THE TECHNOLOGY
So, in blu-ray disc: Pit size 0.15 microns ( more than twice as small as the pits on DVD ) Track-pitch is : 0.32 microns Laser needed : blue-violet laser (405 nm) Data transfer rate : 36 Mbps

COMPARISON IN BUILDING BD AND DVD

BD
Data is placed on top of a 1.1

HDDVD
Data is sandwiched b/w two

mm thick polycarbonate layer

Doesnt suffer from

polycarbonate layers, each 0.6 mm thick

Suffer from

BIREFRINGENCE
Doesnt suffer from DISC

BIREFRINGENCE TILT Hard coating is placed outside to protect from scratches or fingerprints
Suffer from DISC TILT No such hard coating is placed

BLU RAY S DURABILITY ADVANTAGE

Various hard coating technologies make Bly

ray disc most durable and family -friendly Hard-coating technology provides resistance to: - Finger prints - Marks - Scratches - Dust
Much more ROBUST than todays polycarbonate-

based CD/DVDs (and HD DVDs)

Blue Violet Laser

Shuji Nakamura, a Japanese researcher

working in a small chemical company, Nichia Chemical Industries, built the first blue laser diode. This uses the GaN(gallium nitride) , in the earlier time blue lasers were large and expensive gas laser instruments and needed high currents and strong cooling.

FEATURES OF BD
With BD we can: Record HDTV without any quality loss Instantly skip to any spot on disc Record one program while watching other on the disc Create playlists Edit or reorder programs recorded on disc Automatically search for an empty space on the disc to avoid recording over a program Access to web to download subtitles and other extra features And many more

BLY-RAYS DENSITY ADVANTAGE

Higher density enables

better data seek times Shorter to travel for same amount of data results in faster data seek Better for random access of data

THE NAME
The blu-ray name is a combination of blue, for the color of the laser that is used and ray for optical ray.
The e in blue was purposefully left off, according to the manufacturers, because an everyday word cannot be a trademark.

On GAURD
Blu-ray discs are better armed than current

DVDs. They come equipped with a secure encryption system a unique ID that protects against video piracy and copyright infringement.

specification
In HDDVD we are using Blue Violet laser (405nm)

thus reducing the track pitch to 0.4 microns, Which increases the data capacity. The size of the pits is also reduced. It holds a data rate of maximum 36.55 Mbps.

Basic structure

Types of HDDVD
HDDVD-ROM HDDVD-R HDDVD-RW

TYPES OF HD
Single Layer HDDVD(15GB)
Dual Layer HDDVD(30GB) Triple Layer HDDVD(45GB)

HDDVD in high definition media

HDDVD helps to view the high definition movies in

its full effect. It supports all the high definition formats such as MPEG-2,VC-1,MPEG-4,AVC.MPEG-2 needs 19.3Mbps. It can give up to data rate 36.55Mbps. It supports video formats up to 1080i,1080p. &HDTV video resolution 1920-1080.

Advantages
Cheaper to produce in the short term when compare to

blueray. The only high definition format approved by the DVD forum. The name itself, HD-DVD, is more consumer-friendly HD-DVDs carry the same basic structure as current DVDs, so converting existing DVD manufacturing lines into HD-DVD lines is supposedly simple. Backed by Microsoft.

disadvantages
HD-DVD simply can't boast the same storage

capacity as Blu-ray.

HDDVD did not have the Hard coating .

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