Here comes the Blu Ray

It's official, the future standard for high definition supports will be Blu-ray. Toshiba officially confessed his defeat on february 19th.

Knowing that some companies have put their trust in Toshiba's standard e.g Microsoft with its external reader for the XBOX 360, this announce will hurt a lil bit.

First of all where comes that name? Blu Ray? 
It comes from the fact that it uses blue laser rays to decode the disc, on the contrary of cds that are using red laser or dvds with orange laser.
Usual blu ray discs could carry up to 25 GB of data. Double layer discs could carry the double, with 50GB.
Videos are encoded in Mpeg-4 AVC or VC-1, for a maximum capacity of 4 hours of High Definition video, and 13 hours of Mpeg-2 videos with a single layer disc.
Blu-ray standards are: BD-R (recordable), BD-RE(rewritable), BD-ROM (read only). 

Now you know some essentials of the new support! Now you just need to find a reader among actual Blu-Ray readers that you could find at around 735 dollars. In my point of view, it's better to get a Playstation3 which have a blu-ray reader integrated. You'll get 2 for 1: a game and a reader. Finally, we could just wish good luck to Blu-Ray!