What is Blu-ray?
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The very definition of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, 25GB of data storage and the ability to record four hours of high definition video, all on a disc the same size as a DVD or CD. On the other hand,
You don't think $750 for a Blu-Ray drive is too much, do you? I got some movies to make.
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A new disc format made by Sony Corporation. It is primarily used to store High Definition video but it can also be used to store data like a
Bob: "Do you have blu-ray?"
Tom: "NO. what's that?"
Bob "It's this new disc format made by SONY that can hold 25GB"
Tom: "so..."
Bob "It can hold HD content"
Tom: "Super cool"
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Created by Sony
"Bag of hurt" according to Steve Jobs
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."
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What is most likely to become the next form of media. It's the be used on the next-gen consoles such as PlayStation 3, X-Box 2, but you just never know with Nintendo. Movies will probably be used for it as well, as they can also be recorded on them. A single side can hold 25 GB, and dual can hold 50 GB, and get this, they're making a quad-layered one with 100 GB. That'd make one fuck of a Grand Theft Auto game. Overall, in 3 years when somebody reads this, Blu-Ray will be well known. The acronym for it is BD, for Blu-Ray Disc.
Because blue lasers are thinner and more precise then the current red lasers, it's now possible to store more on a single disc. A Blu-Ray Disc to be exact.
... Why are you telling me this?
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A blue laser that burns! BABY BURNS!!!! and gets mernmorie into a disk so you can see it
BLu-ray is cool
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One of Sony's new proprietary formats that is destined to fail.
The blu-ray is going the way of the betamax.
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