This new technology is caleld Blu Ray. Ive read some magazine articles on it and it does look promising! So far Samsung has released some products but they are not in the market. They are just for testing purposes. It supports 25GB on a single layer disc and up to 50GB on a dual layer disc!!! What if you had a double sided disc? Maybe 100GIGS!!!
It works by changing the old laser from the traditional red laser to a blue laser. The laser beam is much much more finer thus making the drive able to write more, loops per disc.
Already we have programs that support this technology, and some state that the Playstation 3 will support this technology.
Some information from wikipedia:
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Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a next-generation optical disc format meant for storage of high-definition video and high-density data. The Blu-ray standard was jointly developed by a group of consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). As compared to the HD DVD format, its main competitor, Blu-ray has more information capacity per layer, 25 instead of 15 gigabytes, but may initially be more expensive to produce.
The name Blu-ray is derived from the blue-violet laser it uses to read and write to the disc. A Blu-ray disc will be able to store substantially more data than a DVD, because of the shorter wavelength (405 nm) of the read-laser (DVDs use a 650-nm-wavelength red laser and CD's 780 nm). Blu-ray unveiled their plans for a Spring 2006 launch at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006. It was expected to be released on May 23, 2006 but the release date has been changed to June 2006.
After working with the Blu-ray technology, Sony realized that additional effort would be necessary, and announced that the release date of their PlayStation 3 would be postponed until November of 2006. The Blu-ray Disc Association followed suit by also postponing the release date of Blu-ray products in U.S. stores until June of 2006.
The name Blu-ray is derived from the blue-violet laser it uses to read and write to the disc. A Blu-ray disc will be able to store substantially more data than a DVD, because of the shorter wavelength (405 nm) of the read-laser (DVDs use a 650-nm-wavelength red laser and CD's 780 nm). Blu-ray unveiled their plans for a Spring 2006 launch at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006. It was expected to be released on May 23, 2006 but the release date has been changed to June 2006.
After working with the Blu-ray technology, Sony realized that additional effort would be necessary, and announced that the release date of their PlayStation 3 would be postponed until November of 2006. The Blu-ray Disc Association followed suit by also postponing the release date of Blu-ray products in U.S. stores until June of 2006.
Here are some further links on the new tech!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray
http://www.blu-ray.com/
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/blu-ray.htm
This is gunna be really useful but is set to cost around $800 Australian Dollars! So we play the waiting game
Tell us what you think of this new tech
Cyas round
