In the market mostly you can find three types of DVD players- the Blu-Ray Disc player, the High-Definition (HD) DVD player which is not so known and the standard which is quite renowned. During the format war which was mainly on "DVD versus Blu-Ray", mainly the HD DVD player was compared with the Blu-Ray player. Both of them are high capacity players using their own HD format, for which they own the proprietary rights, this resulted in a war between the two technologies to become the market leader. Ultimately, the format war got over in February, 2008 when Toshiba announced that it would no more manufacture the HD DVD player.
High-definition video has the essential need for plenty of disc storage. The secret to both the Blu-Ray player and the HD DVD player is that they both use blue-colored lasers rather than the red lasers used in standard DVD/CD players. Blue light has a shorter wavelength than red light by nature, producing a more tightly focused beam. The blue laser therefore can be capable of burning more data into the disc than a red laser into the same physical space. The pinpoint focus of a laser was the primary tool that produces the microscopic pits and bumps on the surface of a disc, which can be read later as digital information. A smaller or more refined beam that the mentioned blue laser has can burn tinier pits on the surface of the disc, resulting tinier pits and compressed data burning resulting in greater data capacity.
A HD DVD player can burn up to 30 GB of data on a DL High Definition disc and a Blu-Ray player can store up to 50 GB on a DL Blu-Ray disc whereas a standard DVD player can store only 8-5 GB of digital information in any dual or double layered DVD disc. For you to better compare, a standard movie using high-definition quality requires 15 GB of disc space. Even further development is made on this front for increasing the capacity of the optical disc.
Consumers need to buy combo players in order to play movies in either format be it Blu-Ray or HD DVD. A movie released on the former format cannot be played in a HD DVD player and the same is true other way round. So, a combo player is required for this problem. But a combo player is expensive than buying single players of both the formats. But here, is good news to rejoice, both the HD DVD player and the Blu-Ray player are capable of playing the standard DVD or CD player which uses the red laser technology. So, you don't have to worry about re building your old collection of CDs and DVDs in the new format to make it compatible with the new players.
The HD DVD is being backed by Microsoft and they have come out with a HD DVD player for their Xbox 360, similarly, Sony has got integrated with their PlayStation 3 the Blu-Ray player. But, the Blu-Ray player costs a little more than the HD DVD player. Some of the leading electronics manufacturers have come out with not only stand alone players of both Blu-Ray and HD DVD formats but also with combo players.
High-definition video has the essential need for plenty of disc storage. The secret to both the Blu-Ray player and the HD DVD player is that they both use blue-colored lasers rather than the red lasers used in standard DVD/CD players. Blue light has a shorter wavelength than red light by nature, producing a more tightly focused beam. The blue laser therefore can be capable of burning more data into the disc than a red laser into the same physical space. The pinpoint focus of a laser was the primary tool that produces the microscopic pits and bumps on the surface of a disc, which can be read later as digital information. A smaller or more refined beam that the mentioned blue laser has can burn tinier pits on the surface of the disc, resulting tinier pits and compressed data burning resulting in greater data capacity.
A HD DVD player can burn up to 30 GB of data on a DL High Definition disc and a Blu-Ray player can store up to 50 GB on a DL Blu-Ray disc whereas a standard DVD player can store only 8-5 GB of digital information in any dual or double layered DVD disc. For you to better compare, a standard movie using high-definition quality requires 15 GB of disc space. Even further development is made on this front for increasing the capacity of the optical disc.
Consumers need to buy combo players in order to play movies in either format be it Blu-Ray or HD DVD. A movie released on the former format cannot be played in a HD DVD player and the same is true other way round. So, a combo player is required for this problem. But a combo player is expensive than buying single players of both the formats. But here, is good news to rejoice, both the HD DVD player and the Blu-Ray player are capable of playing the standard DVD or CD player which uses the red laser technology. So, you don't have to worry about re building your old collection of CDs and DVDs in the new format to make it compatible with the new players.
The HD DVD is being backed by Microsoft and they have come out with a HD DVD player for their Xbox 360, similarly, Sony has got integrated with their PlayStation 3 the Blu-Ray player. But, the Blu-Ray player costs a little more than the HD DVD player. Some of the leading electronics manufacturers have come out with not only stand alone players of both Blu-Ray and HD DVD formats but also with combo players.
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