| DVD disk format is mostly used as a video | | | | information onto the same physical space. |
| recording medium. But as the time progressed, | | | | Therefore the physical size of the Blu-ray disc |
| the need arose for a new high definition video. | | | | remains the same as the DVD discs, but the |
| The high definition televisions gained more | | | | Bluray disk’s recording capacity is much more |
| popularity because of its superior quality and | | | | than DVDs. High storage capacity is exactly what |
| resolutions. Therefore the time had come to | | | | is required by the HD audio and video, and Bluray |
| introduce a new media disk format to | | | | disk technology is efficiently meeting this |
| accommodate increasing demands of the | | | | requirement. Bluray disk’s massive recording |
| consumers. The DVD disk format did not have | | | | capability has made it more attractive and ideal |
| the capability to accommodate and support the | | | | disk format for gaming technology and data |
| massive data amounts of HD video and audio. | | | | storage. Prices of the highly efficient Bluray disk |
| Therefore 2 new disk formats were introduced | | | | players have dramatically dropped over the years |
| to replace the DVD disk technology. These two | | | | thus making it the highly preferred choice of the |
| disc formats were Blu-ray disk and the high | | | | consumers. The Bluray players also feature the |
| definition DVD technology. This gave rise to a | | | | capability to play the DVD and CD disks. |
| format war just like that of CD vs laser disc or | | | | Sony has also introduced the Blu-ray disk |
| VHS vs Betamax. This format war hindered the | | | | technology in its Play-station 3. Therefore it is one |
| adaptation of any one of these disk formats for | | | | of the first devices based on Bluray technology |
| some time. But at the end, the winner was the | | | | that has reached the mainstream. This was a |
| Bluray disk format. Therefore, most of the | | | | great attraction for the gamers and hence |
| companies went for the Bluray media technology. | | | | boosted the sales of Play station 3 game |
| The other leading media manufacturing companies | | | | systems because it offered the highly reliable |
| adopted the Bluray disk technology because of its | | | | Bluray technology. On needs a High definition |
| increasing popularity, massive capacity and | | | | television to take full advantage of the high |
| reliability. Bluray Disk technology by all means has | | | | definition experience provided by the Blu-ray disk |
| is the winner of the format war and now it has | | | | technology. |
| established new standards for HD audio and video. | | | | Verbatim also manufacture the Blu-ray media |
| Red laser was used in both of the prior disk | | | | disks. The dual layer Verbatim Blu-ray disk has |
| technologies (DVD and CD) for reading the lands | | | | the capacity to record 50GB data at speed of 2x. |
| & pits. Bluray as its name suggests uses the | | | | This will be equivalent to HD video of about 4 |
| blue laser for this purpose. That is how it got its | | | | hours. Therefore, the highly durable Bluray disk |
| name. Blue lazer features a shorter wave-length | | | | technology offers more luxury as the consumer |
| that contributes to the increased precision and | | | | do not have to change or flip the Bluray disc for |
| recording capability. The blue lazer enables the | | | | recording such high voluminous information. |
| media disk to compact more amounts of | | | | |