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HISTORY OF BLURAY DISC WHAT IS BLUE LASER ? HOW DATA IS READ FROM OR WRITTEN ONTO AN OPTICAL

DISC?
BLURAY DISC STRUCTURE BASIC BLURAY CHARACTERISTICS

DIFFERENT FORMATS OF BD
COMPARISONS ADVANTAGES APPLICATIONS CHALLENGES CONCLUSION
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1st GENERATION:

History

-Compact disc (CD): --- 650/700 MB

2nd GENERATION:
-Digital versatile disc (DVD): --- 4.7 GB -It offers high quality sound and video than CD.

3rd GENERATION: Now High Definition

video is demanding a new solution

Blu-ray disc (BD): --- 25/50 GB

-Next generation optical disc format. - can hold almost 5-10 times more data than a DVD. -Developed by Blu-ray disc association with more than 180 members such as Apple, Hitachi, HP, LG, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Dell etc.

The Name
The blu-ray name is the combination of blue, for color of the laser that is used and ray for the optical ray.

The e in blue was purposefully left off, according to the manufacturers, because an everyday word cannot be a trademark.

THE BLUE LASER

o The laser used with the Bluray disc has wavelength of 405nm o The device utilizes a GaN diode as its laser source. The operating current is kept between 60mA and 70mA for optimum performance. o For writing into the disc, the power of the laser used is about 6mW. For reading from the disc, much power is required, only about 0.7mW. o The GaN source can give a power of about 65mW. So, it is an ideal choice for the laser source to be used with the Bluray disc o Due to the much lower wavelength involved, the bit size is small, leading to higher storage capacity on disc of the same size, about five to six times the capacity 7 of a DVD.

WRITING DATA ON TO THE DISC

HOW OPTICAL DISCS READ DATA?

Optical

discs read data by shining laser beam on the disc When reading an optical disc a low power laser beam is focused on the rotating DISC and its reflection is viewed by the read head. When the beam reflects back from the disc, it's intensity changes as it moves from "land" to "pits". These variations in the laser beam are decoded as data by the DISC drive.
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READOUT OF DATA MARKS ON THE DISC

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STRUCTURE OF DVD

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STRUCTURE OF BD

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BLU-RAY DENSITY ADVANTAGE

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BASIC BLURAY DISC CHARACTERISTICS

Large

Recording Capacity High Speed Resistant to Scratches and Fingerprints

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Different Formats of Bluray Disc

BDROM: a read only format developed for prerecorded content BDR : a write once format developed for PC storage BDRW : a rewritable format developed for PC storage BDRE : a rewritable format developed for HDTV recording

Blu-ray Formats
BD-ROM
read-only format for distribution of HD movies, games , software

BD-R
recordable format for HD video recording and PC data storage

BD-RE
rewritable format for HD video recording and PC data storage

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COMPARISON OF CD,DVD & BD SPECIFICATIONS

Parameter CD DVD BD

Disk diameter 120 mm 120 mm 120 mm Disk thickness 1.2 mm 1.2 mm 1.2 mm Laser wavelength 780 nm 650 nm 405 nm Numerical aperture 0.45 0.60 0.85 Minimum pit length 0.83 um 0.4 um 0.138 um Data rate 1.2 Mb/sec 11 Mb/sec 36 Mb/sec Number of data layers One One or two One or two Data capacity ~680 MB 4.7 GB (1L) 27 GB (1L) 8.5 GB (2L) 50 GB (1L)
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CAPACITY COMPARISON

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ADVANTAGES
More storage capacity on a disc of the same size. High data transfer rate. Available in different versions like ROM, R and RE Backward compatible. Strong content protection. Compatible with analog and digital transmission Higher disc life.

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APPLICATIONS
High Definition Television Recording High Definition Video Distribution High Definition Camcorder Archiving Mass Data Storage Digital Asset Management and Professional Storage

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CHALLENGES
High

cost HDDVD Research is going on to make the Bluray discs, players and recorders cheaper

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COMMERCIAL MARKET BLU-RAY DRIVES

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BLU-RAY RECORDERS

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Courtesy Blu-ray Disc Founders Blu-ray Disc Format White Paper

NEW RELEASES

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CORPORATE SUPPORT
Sony

launched their first standalone Blu-ray Disc player Dell introduced its XPS M1710 laptop with a BD-ROM player and burner The first Blu-ray Disc recorder was demonstrated by Sony Pioneer announced its BDC-2202 Bluray computer drive
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CONCLUSION
The Blue-ray Disc is a technology platform that can store sound and video while maintaining high quality and also access the stored content in an easy-to-use way. The BD represents a major advancement in capacity as well as data transfer rate. Bluray disc offers HDTV video recording and reproducing since it enable large storage capacity and data transfer rates. So we can expect the BD to become more prevalent once the HDTV market establishes its presence

Very soon BDs will replace CDs and DVDs

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REFERENCES

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/254136 http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1616, http://www.docstoc.com/docs/424938/White-paper-General-Blu-ray-

Disc-Format

http://allfreedownloadlinks.com/free-softwares/free-multimediasoftware/blu-ray- to-dvd-pro-v120/

http://reviews.cnet.com/1770-9991_70.html?query=blu+ray+disc&searchtype=products&tag=ltcol;narrow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc# Technical_specifications http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/search/Search.aspx?SearchBy=0&W ord=blu+ray+disc&By=0

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