Blu-ray technology – A technology that changed the domain of CD/DVD Burning, forever

Blu-Ray is synonymous with anything even remotely concerned with CD/DVD Burning. Such has been the impact of Blu-Ray on this domain that any discussion on CD/DVD Burners has to have the mention of Blu-Ray in them. Of course, you also have Blu-Ray CD/DVD Burners too!

Blu-Ray brought with it a concept in CD/DVD Burning – High resolution.

Blu-Ray technology came into existence with the objective of enable users to record, write and playback high definition (HD) video. This technology also brought with it, the feature of storing lot of GB of data. Just so you know – A Blu-Ray disc typically offers about five times the storage capacity of a traditional DVD.

Blu-Ray technology is also known for the formats it supports in the process of writing or reading HD discs. The typical abbreviation for a Blu-Ray disc is BD. Blu-Ray Discs, most popularly are of three types – BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE. BD-ROM stands for read-only format, while the other two are recordable and rewriteable formats respectively.

BD discs can hold as much data as you want. To give you an example, a typical single layer BD disc can hold up to 25 GB of data, while dual layered discs can hold up to 50 GB of data. You can also manage up to 9 hours of HD video on the BD disc, and up to 23 hours of Standard video.

All is not about capacity and storage, when you talk of Blu-ray technology. Speed is another talking point of this all-new technology. Typically, 1X for Blu-Ray stands for a speed of 36 Mbps. As BD-ROM movies work on a speed of 54Mbps, the expectations from the future is to see 2X discs. A lot more advancements have been planned with Blu-Ray technology, and that’s probably why BDA (Blu-Ray Disc Association) has set sights on increasing speeds up to 8X.

Blu-ray technology also supports a host of audio codecs. The list of audio codecs supported by Blu-ray, are as follows – Linear PCM, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD, DTS Digital Surround, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS-HD Master Audio and more.

One of the flexibilities of Blu-Ray technology is that you don’t need an Internet connection for playing back movies and videos. You may still need to connect to the Internet for downloading and browsing the Internet.

The most important question coming through from various sections in the disc burning domain is if Blu-ray technology will replace DVD. For now, all efforts are being taken to catapult this technology to a new level. And yes, over a period of time, Blu-ray technology will slowly but surely take over from DVDs.

The run of the mill DVD would have been your answer to watch movies and videos all these years. But, with the inception of HD videos and HDTV, it is time you made the turn to Blu-ray technology. After all, it is this technology that will help you view HD movies and HD videos with absolute ease.

And while you do that, let us assure you that user experience will never be compromised with Blu-Ray technology.