I don’t want to sound like an idiot, but I don’t really know what the deal with blue ray is. Can it be played on a regular player or do you need a blue ray player? Also please explain what exactly blue ray is.
is blue ray better than regular? if so, why?
is blue ray better than regular? if so, why?
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Blu-ray discs cannot be played on a convention DVD player. This would be kind of like trying to play a DVD disc on a CD player!
Blu-ray disc’s get their name from the fact that they use a Blu laser to read the “pits” in the disc surface. These pits represent the 0’s and 1’s that make up the data stream that forms the movie.
Conventional DVD players use an infrared laser to read and write data. As the wavelength of the blue light is about 1/2to 1/4 of that of the IR laser. The BR data “pits” can thus be much smaller than those made by an IR laser. The smaller pits allow more data, a conventional DVD disc holds about 5GB, a blue-ray disc holds about 20GB.
Beyond laser type and pit size, Dlue-ray players are designed to work with the much higher data rates required to deliver a High definition image.
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