What exactly is Blu-Ray

[XxEtrnlDeathXx]

I heard it's like some High Defintion DVD Discs that PS3 are going to be using. Would those discs be brought out for the public for burning Blu-Ray Disc DVD's? Also I heard that because the PS3 uses BluRay Disc it's going to cost like $80

[Will.Spencer]

Blu-Ray is an optical storage format developed by Sony and Phillips.

Blu-Ray uses a 405nm wavelength blue-violet laser and an 0.85nm pickup aperture. Blu-Ray disks are coated with a 0.1mm protective surface layer.

Single-layer Blu-Ray disks currently store 23.3GB of data, which dual-layer Blu-Ray disks are able to store 46.6GB of data.

The Blu-Ray standard supports the following codec's: MPEG-2, Microsoft Video Codec 1, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC.

For security, Blu-Ray supports mandatory HDCP encrypted output, ROM-Mark watermarking, BD+ dynamic cryptology, and the Advanced Access Content System (AACS).

Source: What is Blu-Ray?

[zeroth]

I'm not that convinced that it will be widely used if it is that expensive, although the HD movement seems to be picking up.

[Will.Spencer]

I am not so sure that this is a large enough improvement over dual-layer DVD's to convince enough people to upgrade.

[dave7]

I'm not that convinced either, unless there will be a significant advantage to using them over DVD's.

[imported_chris]

If the cost is reasonable, I'll go with Blu-Ray otherwise I'll just stick with CDs and DVDs.

[tilldoomsday]

I can't wait for a new format to come out.