Blu ray disc

[seminar class]

Presented By :
HARSH.M.PATEL

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BLU-RAY DISC
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
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 : blue-violet laser (405 nm)
Data transfer rate : 36 Mbps
• COMPARISON IN BUILDING BD AND DVD
BD
 Data is placed on top of a 1.1 mm thick polycarbonate layer
 Doesn’t suffer from BIREFRINGENCE
 Doesn’t suffer from DISC TILT
 Hard coating is placed outside to protect from scratches or fingerprints
DVD
 Data is sandwiched b/w two polycarbonate layers, each 0.6 mm thick
 Suffer from BIREFRINGENCE
 Suffer from DISC TILT
 No such hard coating is placed
BLU RAY ‘S DURABILITY ADVANTAGE
 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 today’s polycarbonate-based CD/DVD’s (and HD DVD’s)
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-RAY’S 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
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.
On GAURD
• Blu-ray discs are better armed than current DVD’s. 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