Blu-Ray vs Hd DVD High Definition Evolution

When the CD came in in the early '80s, it was a massive leap from traditional media. It offer a significant improvement in audio quality, its primary application, but it also gave 650 MB storagewhich was a giant leap in data storage and retrieval. For the very first time, there was a universal standard for pre-recorded, recordable and rewritable media that offered the best quality and features consumers really wanted at very low costs.

The CD boomed in popularity and was the media of choice for many all the way up to the 90’s when a demand for higher capacity storage became apparent. These demands lead to the evolution of the DVD specification and an increase in capacity by anything up to 10x. This was just what was demanded and provided a seamless jump as it used the same basic principles as the CD to work on making it easily accessable and understandable for your average CD user.

Now we want better quality, just not more storage and so in comes Blu-ray DVD.History proved that a significant 5-10 x increase in storage capacity and the ability to play previous generation formats are key elements for a new format to succeed. Thishas arrived with the creation of Blu-ray Disc, the only format that offers agreat increase in storage capacity with its 25 to 50 GB data capacity. This gives it the ability to cope with high definition media which the world is demanding right now. In fact, no other format can offer the same data capacity of Blu-ray Disc and it is why Bluray have beaten HD DVD in the race to be the peoples choice. Again it is in the same format as both the CD and DVD and so is easily understood by the Consumer.

Blu-ray is the next big thing and sales of it’s players and blu-ray DVD’s is constantly on the increase. This is helping the price of both essential elements, the player and the blu-ray DVDs to become cheaper. Soon you will be able to pick up Cheap Blu-ray DVD’s just as you pick up bargain DVDs today.