Posted by teem on 12/13/06 02:12

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:34:47 GMT, glenzabr@nospam.xmission.com (GMAN)
wrote:

>In article <d1cad$457ea35e$5429cd05$13423@news.speedlinq.nl>, Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>In message <1165911637.160251.123370@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "kushu"
>>wrote:
>>> The name Blu-ray is derived from the blue-violet laser it uses to read
>>> and write to the chalcogenide disc. A Blu-ray Disc can store
>>> substantially more data than a DVD, because of the shorter wavelength
>>> (405 nm) of the blue-violet laser (DVDs use a 650-nm-wavelength red
>>> laser and CDs an infrared 780 nm laser), which allows more information
>>> to be stored digitally in the same amount of space. In comparison to HD
>>> DVD, which also uses a blue laser, Blu-ray has more information
>>> capacity per layer (25 gigabytes instead of 15)..
>>> for more on this revolutionary technology:
>>> http://askwiki.blogspot.com/2006/09/blu-ray-disc-bd-is-next-generation.html
>>>
>>> Enjoy !
>>
>>Yeay right, it is so nice for costumers to have a new
>>bunch of incompatible players and disks.
>>If I have to make my choice, I will take something
>>with the least influence from the virus company sony.
>>
>If you were loser enough to buy one of the handfull of loser music groups that
>had that rootkit on it in the first place, then you have more worries in your
>life than what the next generation of disk format you are going to buy into.
>
>
Betamax Redux.

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