Blu-Ray
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Various formats of DVD technology are still fighting for dominance, but the battle for the next generation of media may have already been won. Blu-Ray, backed by Sony and a host of other companies, has both momentum and technical excellence on its side. Keep reading to find out why you might be buying your own Blu-Ray player in a year or two.
Blue-Ray
The media market is as competitive as any other market. Take DVDs for example; they are currently being mass produced, and there is still no one standard format. There is DVD-R, and DVD+R. What are the differences? Not a whole lot, except for the people that hold the copyrights to them.
For the consumer, this makes burning DVDs much harder. Will the DVD+R work in my DVD player? What about the DVD-R? Does my burner burn DVD+R or –R or both? Then there’s dual layer. The fighting over the current generation of media hasn't even ended yet, and the battle for the next generation is already in full swing. Today we will look at Blu-Ray technology. It is not Blue-Ray, it’s Blu-Ray; the color couldn’t be copyrighted because it is a normal every day word, so they dropped the "e" and copyrighted that. It is a few steps ahead of its competitor, and appears to be the next favored format, but things could change in the near future.
Recently Apple has decided to back Blu-Ray for their future products. Apple won’t be making any discs, or any other hardware, for that matter. They will be integrating the ability to use Blu-Ray technology into their DVD software, such as iDVD. They are usually at the cutting edge of technology -- remember Firewire? Apple had it in Macs long before it ever made it to the PC. Apple joins HP and Dell as the computer companies backing Blu-Ray.
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