NEXT-GEN OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM

A Blu-ray is an
optical disc just like
CD or a DVD.

Same size and width

as a DVD or CD.
 Blue Ray Disk
five times the storage
capacity
of traditional DVDs

Blue Ray Disk offers

25GB on a single-layer disc

and 50GB
on a dual-layer disc

Combined
with
advanced video and
audio codecs
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Gigabytes (GB) 25

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CD DVD Blu-ray Disc

A single layer blu-ray disc as a capacity of 25

GB which about 5 times the capacity of DVD.
Many Blue Ray Movies are already
launched
 There are two types
Of
Blue Ray Disk’s

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 Paper based Blue Ray Disk
Developed by SONY and Toppan Printing in Japan
It uses MIXTURE of PAPER & ANOTHER POLYMER
instead of POLYCARBONATE for substrate .
 Environment friendly.
Crude Oil required for polycarbonate is a limited
resource but paper can be recycled.
 No loss in storage space on disk occurs.
Decrease in the amount of raw material needed to
produce a disk.
 SONY is leading paper based
Blue Ray Disc Manufacturer

 Above picture shows the Paper based blue

ray discs of 25 GB storage capacity
manufactured by SONY
 Hard Coating Technology
Technology to protect the disc from scratches
and other damages.
TDK Inc. :It uses DURABIS coating made up
of recently introduced Clear Polymer .It has
scratch resistance & can successfully resist
wire wool scrubbing
Sony's rewritable media are sprayed with a
scratch-resistant and antistatic coating.
Verbatim recordable and rewritable Blu-ray
Disc discs use their own proprietary hard-
coating technology called SCRATCHGUARD.
Audio and Video Compression
supported by Blue Ray Disk
 Audio and Video Formats

COMPRESSION

Compressed
Raw Audio/Video Data Audio/Video Data
on
On CD’s & DVD’s
Blue ray Disk’s
 Example:
Mp3 (.mp3) audio format

Compressing

Raw Audio Mp3 file

30 MB 5 MB
 Audio and Video Formats

Classified as:

COMPRESSION Lossy

Lossless
Lossy….. quality decreases.
Example:
Mpeg (.mpg) video format
Lossless….. no quality loss

Example:
 Features of
Blue Ray Disk

Physical Media

Recording Speed

Laser and Optics

High data transfer speed

Let’s see the Major differences
between Blue Ray Disk and
DVD
 single
Storage layer
4.7 GB 25 GB
capacity
dual
layer
8.5 GB 50 GB

405nm (blue-
Laser Wavelength 650nm(red violet laser)
laser)

SD Playback time 3.8 hrs 22.2 hrs

Video Codec MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 MPEG-4 / VC-1 /
MPEG-2

Audio codec Dolby Digital @ Dolby Digital @

448 Kbit/s 640 Kbit/s
 11.08 53.95
Transfer Raw Data
Mbit/s Mbit/s
Bit rate

Audio+Video 9.8Mbit/s 40 Mbit/s

Video Resolution
(max) 1920×1080 720×480
What makes the Blue Ray Disk
different?
Small width of To More
SPIRAL GROOVE accommodate storage
& allows Long Spiral causes space on
Small width of Track in long
TRACK PITCH same size Spiral Track
of disk

Width of Width of
Spiral groove Track Pitch
CD 0.5µm 1.6 µm
DVD 0.32µm 0.74 µm
BD 0.15 µm 0.32 µm
Blue Ray Disks
TDK’s Single layer 25 GB
Blue Ray Disk with 1-2x
speed

Verbatim’s Single layer

25GB Rewritable Blue Ray
Disk with 1-2 x speed
SONY 50 GB Blue Ray
Disk

Panasonics 25 GB Blue
Ray Disk
 BLUE RAY DISK Roms-Writers
 Pioneer BD Rom (BDR 101A)
Single layer access at 5x speed
Dual layer access at 2x speed.
It can also read & burn
DVDs & CDs

 LG’s Super Multi Blue

Player that can read &
burn CD,DVD,HD DVD
& BD.
 Samsung’s Blue Ray Disk drive supports
both Blue Ray & DVD formats
 Philips Standalone Universal Blue
Ray Disk Player

It supports all the formats (CD,DVD,HD DVD,BD)

giving superiors outputs
 Vida Box Player : plays both
BD & HD DVD

 Samsung Universal Player :

BD-UP5000
Vida Box BD Player

 Digital DV-970HD DVD Universal Player: Supports all

Formats( CD,DVD,HD DVD, BD)
 Future of Blue Ray Disk
 Present Blue Ray Disk availability: Single Layer
(25 GB) & Double Layer (50 GB)
 The QUAD LAYER Blue Ray Disk with 100 GB
storage is likely to emerge in US market.
 The Company TDK said that it is working with
6 layer blue ray disk with storage of 200 GB
 Company JVC announced the unique 3 layer
BD\DVD combo disk that will run in DVD Rom
with SD DVD quality & as Blue Ray Disk in BD-
Rom giving superior quality
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YOU…..