Tech Time with Royce Taylor

Hey everybody, this is Royce here giving you a bit of a history lesson. Now, if you didn’t already know HD television sets appeared on the scene in 1998, however, there was no medium with the storage required to either record or play HD video. After a joint venture between multiple companies, Blu-ray was born. Using a short wavelength blue laser to read and write data, this laser allows for over five times the data capacity on a single layer than a DVD. This allows a single layer Blu-ray disc to allow room for 25GB of information. Furthermore, continuing advancement allows for up to 400GB of information with work underway on a Blu-ray disc that can store up to a terabyte of data. The huge storage capabilities and major film studio support allowed Blu-ray to surpass HD DVD in the format ware. As the only HD optimal disc available after HD DVD’s demise, it is no question that Blu-ray will be around for a long time. In conclusion, engineers’ ability to continually increase the Blu-ray discs storage ability will allow Blu-ray to have an unpredictably long life.