Next Gen DVD standards

[TNM93]

This may be a noob question, but there seems to be a lot of news this week about companies siding with Blu-Ray or trying to get Blu-Ray to include aspects of HD-DVD. I'm curious, what's the main differences between the two?

 

[YoshiSato]

How about a compromise.

HD-Blue-Ray.


Or Blue-HD-DVD?

On wait only creates the same problem.

 

[CalamitySymphony]

Wikipedia is your friend. Google also.

"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 leading consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), led by Sony and Philips. 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 support.

Blu-ray gets its name from the shorter wavelength (405 nm) of a "blue" (technically blue-violet) laser that allows it to store substantially more data than a DVD, which has the same physical dimensions but uses a longer wavelength (650 nm) red laser."

- Source Wikipeida

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
Wikipedia is your friend. Google also.

"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 leading consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), led by Sony and Philips. 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 support.

Blu-ray gets its name from the shorter wavelength (405 nm) of a "blue" (technically blue-violet) laser that allows it to store substantially more data than a DVD, which has the same physical dimensions but uses a longer wavelength (650 nm) red laser."

- Source Wikipeida

Last I checked, this was a forum for hardware discussion.