Co-written by: Neoprene Notebook Slipcases. Bluray discs are the newest and the latest when it comes to optical disc storage. Gone are the days when we had to use DVD’s of CD’s for every kind of storage that we could think of. Compared to the 50GB of data that a bluray disc can store, the storage capacity of the DVD and CD which used to seem huge compared to the floppy disk, is actually tiny.

A good bluray dvd player needs to play not only bluray discs but CDs and DVDs as well. As bluray discs are read and written using a different wavelength of rays, the technology used in the bluray dvd player is one that has to be compatible with the new bluray technology as well as the older HD DVD technology.

A bluray dvd player is a great possession to boast about as it still isn’t totally mainstream, even though it can be purchased at many online and other electronics stores. Although in paying for a bluray dvd player, you’d be paying more than you do for a normal DVD player, you are paid back by the quality of the experience.

Viewers are now not satisfied with just a normal quality picture. That’s fair enough as we like to say that we’re getting what we paid for. A Bluray dvd player will give all of us the option of watching the same movies but with much better picture quality, clarity, sound and with the added option of using special features in a  better way as well.

For example with bluray technology, bluray discs will be capable of holding much more information than before, and so hence a movie could be watched with the added specials in it.

There are quite a few companies in the race to provide the latest technology who supply the bluray dvd player. Brands like Panasonic, Sony, Philips, LG and Samsung are just some of the brands that have put into the market new DVD players that are compatible not just with bluray discs but with conventional CD’s and DVD’s as well.

This backward compatibility is something completely optional, as when the bluray dvd player is being made it is up to the company to decide if to use a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical head or not, but because of the growing popularity of bluray discs, it would be against the best interests of the company to not include this new technology in their products.

Other Authors: Neoprene Notebook.