2007-01-13 15:15:41 · 5 answers · asked by BabyT 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
Blu-ray is a new High Definition standard set by Sony and couple of other manufacturers.
There is also HD-DVD which is the competition to Blu-ray.
Blu-ray is not going away anytime soon (Needless to what anybody says about it). Playstation 3 actually has a blu-ray drive built in it and the system is close to $600. Most stand alone blu-ray players today are about $800.
You can not play blu-ray disks on your normal DVD drive. You can play normal DVD's on a blu-ray drive it is backwards compatible.
If you are planning on buying a blu-ray player do your kids a favor and spring for a Playstation 3. You will save $200 compared to normal blu-ray players and you will keep them happy by letting them play games on the most advanced game system ever built to date.
2007-01-13 20:48:08 · answer #1 · answered by Robert K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a special disc developed for high definition video. You have to have a player capable of playing it. Right now only Blu-Ray players can play Blu-Ray discs, and they cost about $500. Of course the Playstation 3 has one built in.
A Blu-Ray burner for computers has also been developed as well as blank media. The single layer versions currently out hold about 25Gb of data.
2007-01-13 23:21:56 · answer #2 · answered by Geoff S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can only play a Blu-Ray Disc on a Blu-Ray Disc player. Take a look at Wikipedia for lots of information to help you...
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2007-01-14 00:31:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't waste your time with blu-ray just get a hd-dvd player in a few years blu-ray will be obsolete just like the betamax
2007-01-13 23:46:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a new format for HD video format that allows more information to be stored on the disk
It requires a BlueRay disk player (or the new PlayStation)
2007-01-13 23:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by bata4689 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋