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HISTORY
THE NAME
FORMAT OF BD
TYPE OF BD
THE TECHNOLOGY
COMPARISON IN BUILDING BD AND DVD
COMPARISON IN BEAM SIZE
CD VS. DVD VS. HD-DVD VS. BLU-RAY
DISC
FEATURES OF BD
BLU-RAY’S DURABILITY ADVANTAGE
BLU-RAY DENSITY ADVANTAGE
ON GUARD
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 HISTORY
1st GENERATION :
Compact Disc (CD):-- 650/700MB
It is with us for over 20 yrs.
Wavelength of laser which reads data: 780nm
Color of laser: Red

2nd GENERATION :
Digital versatile disc (DVD):-- 4.7GB
It offers high quality sound and video than CD.
Wavelength of laser which reads data: 650nm
Color of laser: Red
 HISTORY
3RD Generation:
Blu-ray disc (BD):-- 25/50 GB
Next generation optional disc format.
Developed by blu-ray association (which includes Apple,
Hitachi, HP, LG, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung,
Sharp, Sony).
Wavelength of laser that reads data: 405nm
Color of laser: Blue-violet which was developed by SHUJI
NAKAMURA at NICHIA COPERATION.
 The Name
The blu-ray name is the combination of
“blue”, for color of the laser that is used
and “ray” for the optical ray.

The “e” in “blue” was purposefully left off,

according to the manufacturers, because
an everyday word cannot be a trademark.
 Format of BD
It comes in four different formats:
1. BD-ROM (read only): for reading recorded
content.
2. BD-R (recordable): for PC data storage.
3. BD-RW (rewritable): for PC data storage.
4. BD-RE (rewritable): for HDTV (high
definition television) recording.
 TYPES OF BD
SINGLE LAYER:
can hold data up to 25/27 GB that means 2hrs
of HD video or about 13hrs of standard video.
DOUBLE LAYER:
can hold data up to 50 GB that means 4.5hrs
of HD video or about 20hrs of standard video.
 THE TECHNOLOGY
Pits: spiral groves that runs from the center of
the disc to its edge.
Track pitch: it is the distance between the two
tracks (of pits) on the surface.

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Disc store digitally encoded data in PITS.
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 THE TECHNOLOGY
So, in blu-ray disc:
Pit size-- 0.15 microns (more than twice as
small as the pits on DVD).
Track pitch– 0.32 microns
laser needed:-- blue-violet laser (450nm)
Data transfer rate: 36Mbps
 Comparison in building
BD AND DVD
BD DVD
Data is placed on top of a Data is sandwiched b/w
1.1 mm thick two polycarbonate layers,
polycarbonate layer. each 0.6 mm thick.
Doesn’t suffer from Suffer from
BIREFRINGENCE. BIREFRINGENCE.
Doesn’t suffer from Disc Suffer from Disc Tilt.
Tilt.
Hard coating is placed No such hard coating is
outside to protect from placed.
scratches or fingerprints.
Comparison in Beam size
CD vs. DVD vs. HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray
Disc
 Features of BD
With BD we can:
Record HDTV without any quality loss.
Instantly skip to any spot on disc.
Record any program while watching other on the disc.
Create playlists.
Edit or reorder programs recorded on the disc.
Automatically search for an empty on the disc to avoid
recording over the program.
Access to web to download subtitles and other extra
features.
And many more…..
 BLU-RAY ‘S DURABILITY
ADVANTAGE
Various hard coating technologies make Blu ray disc
most durable and family-friendly.
Hard coating technology provides resistances to:
– Finger prints
– Marks
– Scratches
– Dust
Much more ROBUST than today’s polycarbonate-
based CD/DVD’s (and HD DVD’s).
Blu-ray Density Advantage
Higher density
enables better data
seek times.
Shorter to travel for
same amount of data
results in the faster
data seek.
Better for random
access of data.
 On Guard
Blu-ray discs are better armed than current
DVD’s. They come equipped with a
secure encryption system – a unique ID
that protected against video piracy and
copyright infringement.
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More capacity , Density and
Performance.
More Industry Support/Consumer Reach.
More Durable.
More interactive user experience.
More flexible content protection.
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