Every one of us knows about DVD which is expanded as "Digital Versatile Disk". There are two standard formats for the manufacture of DVDs till now. They are the HD-DVD format and the other one is The Blu-ray format. These two formats are incompatible and are arch-rivals of each other. However both these formats have increased the DVD storage capacity from 4.7GB to 20GB-25GB.
Sony and Philips were the giant manufacturers of DVD using Blu-ray standards. Toshiba and Hitachi used HD-DVD standard. The real problem arose when Hollywood released their movies on DVDs that had multiple standards like Fox, Warner and Sony for Blu-ray and Paramount and Universal for HD DVD. This lead to the purchase of different DVD players for different standards. In a reamarkable turn of events, Toshiba has decided to exit from HD DVD business leavin Blu-ray as the only single standard available for DVDs.
Toshiba withdrew mainly because Warner Brothers one of their major supporters have decided not to use HD DVD standards and business giants like WalMart and NetFix have adopted to Blu-ray standard. Technology wise, HD DVDs are easier to produce but their storage capacity is 15 to 20 GB versus 23 to 25GB for Blu-ray.
Due to this diversification in standards people started downloading movies from the internet rather buy DVDs that had two different standards that necessitated purchase of many DVD players. This problem of downloading pirated movies over the internet has come to an end with this single DVD standard. Indian CD and DVD manufacturing giant Moser Baer is very happy and sure of increasing its capacity of production since the format is standardised. The current disk production is 3.2 billion per year which Moser Baer is sure to increase. In all, its Blu-ray's time to rake in the profits!!!! Hurray Hurray Blu-ray!
No comments:
Post a Comment