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Technologies
Corey Collins
Mark Merrill
Main Topics
• Current Media Format
• Theory of Blu-ray Technology
• Integration of Blu-ray
• Theory of HD DVD Technology
• Integration of HD DVD
• Comparison - Which is better? Which one
is more likely to catch on?
Current Media Format
• CD’s
– Consist of pits and
lands stamped out in a
spiral pattern on the
disc.
– A laser then reads the
pits and lands.
– The change from a pit
to a land or a land to a
pit indicates a one
while no change
indicates a zero.
Current Media Format Cont.
• CD-RW’s
– Consist of a metal
phase change alloy
which when heated
can be to change to
reflectivity
• CD-R’s
– Consist of a dye that is
applied to the disc.
– When a writing laser is
shined it changes the
reflectivity.
Current Media Format Cont.
• DVD’s
– Also contain pits and
lands.
– Are more highly
compact than a CD.
– Special laser is
needed to read them.
High Definition
• To better understand the • Because of this difference
need for media formats the bandwidth of HD is
with greater storage lets about 5 times greater
briefly describe what High than standard video.
Definition is. • Currently a standard
• Your regular TV signal movie takes up almost an
has about 480 pixel lines, entire DVD so we need
but HD has about 1280 something that’s almost 5
pixel lines that go across times that.
your TV
• Enter Blu-ray and HD
DVD technologies….
Blu-ray Technology
• Name
– In order to
accommodate for the
needs of the storage
capacity of the dual
layer format the
makers designed the
combination format.
HD DVD Integration Cont.
• Security
– Uses the same security
feature as Blu-ray.
– Both Blu-ray and HD DVD
makers said would be
extremely hard to pirate
with this security feature.
– Eight days after HD DVD
discs hit the market a
hacker called muslix64
reportedly cracked the
security feature.
HD DVD vs Blu-ray
• Both formats use blue lasers rather than red.
• Both have the same options for video and audio compression.
• Blu-ray offers significantly more storage space -- 50 GB on a dual-layer disc versus HD-
DVD's 30 GB.
• The DVD Forum, which creates DVD standards, has approved HD-DVD and has not
approved Blu-ray.
• HD-DVD players hit the market on April 18, 2006, two months before the first Blu-ray
player hit the U.S. market in June, 2006.
HD DVD vs Blu-ray Cont.
DISCS