BLU-RAY

DISC
By : HARSH PATEL
09IT056

HISTORY
1st GENERATION:
Compact disc (CD): --- 650/700 MB
It is with us for over 20 years.
Wavelength of laser which reads data: 780 nm
Color of laser: Red
2nd GENERATION:
Digital versatile disc (DVD): --- 4.7 GB
It offers high quality sound and video than
CD.
Wavelength of laser which reads data: 650 nm
Color of laser: Red

HISTORY
3rd GENERATION:
Blu-ray disc (BD): --- 25/50 GB
-Next generation optical disc format.
-Developed by blu-ray disc association (which
includes Apple, Hitachi, HP, LG, Panasonic,
Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony)
-Wavelength of laser which reads data: 405 nm
-Color of laser: Blue-violet which was
developed by
SHUJI NAKAMURA
at NICHIA CORPORATION

THE NAME
The blu-ray name is a combination of
blue, for the color of the laser that
is used and ray for optical ray.
The e in blue was purposefully left
off, according to the manufacturers,
because an everyday word cannot be
a trademark.

FORMAT OF BD
It comes in four different formats:
BD-ROM (read only) : for reading recorded
content.

BD-R (recordable) : for PC data storage.

BD-RW (rewritable) : for PC data storage.
BD-RE (rewritable) : for HDTV (high
definition television) recording.

TYPES OF BD:
SINGLE LAYER :
- Can hold data up to 25/27 GB that
means 2 hrs of HD video or about
13 hrs of standard video.
DOUBLE LAYER :
- Can hold data up to 50 GB that
means 4.5 hrs of HD video or more
than 20 hrs of standard video.

THE TECHNOLOGY
Pits : spiral grooves

that run from the centre

of the disc to its edges
Bumps : other sides of
these edges.
Track pitch : it is
the distance between
the two tracks (of pits)
on the surface.
-------------------------------Disc store digitally
encoded data in PITS.
--------------------------------

THE TECHNOLOGY
So, in blu-ray disc:
Pit size 0.15 microns
( more than twice as
small as the pits on DVD
)
Track-pitch is : 0.32
microns
Laser needed : blueviolet laser (405 nm)
Data transfer rate : 36
Mbps

COMPARISON IN
BUILDING BD AND DVD
BD

DVD

Data is placed on top of a

1.1 mm thick
polycarbonate layer

Data is sandwiched b/w

two polycarbonate layers,
each 0.6 mm thick

Doesnt suffer from

BIREFRINGENCE

Suffer from
BIREFRINGENCE

Doesnt suffer from DISC

TILT
Hard coating is placed
outside to protect from
scratches or fingerprints

Suffer from DISC TILT

No such hard coating is
placed

BLU RAY S
ADVANTAGE

DURABILITY

Various hard coating technologies make Bly

ray disc most durable and family -friendly
Hard-coating technology provides
resistance to:
- Finger prints
- Marks
- Scratches
- Dust
Much more ROBUST than todays
polycarbonate-based CD/DVDs

FEATURES OF BD
With BD we can:
Record HDTV without any quality loss
Instantly skip to any spot on disc
Record one program while watching other on
the disc
Create playlists
Edit or reorder programs recorded on disc
Automatically search for an empty space on the
disc to avoid recording over a program
Access to web to download subtitles and other
extra features
And many more

BLY-RAYS DENSITY
ADVANTAGE
Higher density
enables better data
seek times
Shorter to travel for
same amount of
data results in faster
data seek
Better for random
access of data

On GAURD
Blu-ray discs are better armed than
current DVDs. They come
equipped with a secure encryption
system a unique ID that protects
against video piracy and copyright
infringement.

DO MORE WITH
BLU
More capacity, Density and

Performance
More Industry Support/Consumer
Reach (BDA has 140+ members)
More Durable
More Interactive User Experience
More Flexible Content Protection:
AAC, BD+ Renewability Technology
and ROM Mark

Thank You