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Short for Blu-ray Disc,
BD or BD-ROM is an optical
disc jointly developed by thirteen consumer electronics and pc
companies such as Dell,
Hitachi,
Hewlett Packard,
LG, Mitsubishi,
Panasonic,
Sony,
TDK,
and more. The blu-ray was first announced and introduced at the
2006 CES on January 4,
2006 and is capable of
storing up to 25 GB on a single layer disc and 50 GB on a dual
layer disc.
Today Blu-ray is backed by
Apple,
Dell,
Philips,
Pioneer,
Sony,
Sun,
TDK and
other companies mentioned above and won
HD DVD in the high definition disc
format wars. On February 19, 2008 HD DVD called it quits making the Blu-ray players the primary HD players available.
Also see: CD definitions,
DVD, EVD,
HD DVD,
HDMI, HDTV, Java
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