Do you love going to movie theatres where the picture is clear and the sound shakes the walls? Do you wish that you could watch movies in your own home with the same experience? Now you can thanks to the next-generation optical disc known as Blu-ray.
The Blu-ray Disc Association, including leading companies like Apple Computer Inc., Sony Corporation, Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox, developed the Blu-ray. This type of disc offers viewers a high-definition experience. The picture is sharper and the colors are more vivid than they are on a standard DVD. Blu-ray has five times better detail than DVDs. The sound with Blu-rays is also high-definition. You can watch movies in your home with wall shaking sound and picture clarity that you enjoy in theatres.
One reason the picture and sound quality are better with Blu-ray discs is they can hold five times more data than DVDs. This means more storage space for high-definition picture and sound along with more special features. There is more room for bloopers, deleted scenes and commentary than on a standard DVD. With this next-generation optical disc, you can also bring up the menu without stopping the movie. While watching the movie, you can even bring up the director to hear him explain the difficulty of shooting the scene you are watching.
Blu-ray discs are able to hold more data because a blue-violet laser is used to write and read the data. Standard DVDs use a red laser. The blue-violet laser, unlike the red laser, has a shorter wavelength. This means that the laser can be focused with better precision so more data can be saved in a smaller space. A single-layer Blu-ray disc can hold 25GB while a dual-layer can hold up to 50GB. A single-layer DVD, on the other hand, can only hold 4.7GB and a dual-layer holds 8.5GB.
The next-generation discs are also scratch and fingerprint resistant. Each disc is hard-coated to prevent scratches and protect stored data. Blu-ray players can read both Blu-rays and standard DVDs, but you will be able to tell a difference between the two. With Blu-ray, the explosions in movies are brighter and louder, landscape shots are clearer and brighter, the music is more powerful and you feel like you are part of the movie. Watching movies at home with your own popcorn just got better.
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