The document discusses Blu-ray discs, including their evolution from earlier optical discs like CDs and DVDs, key characteristics such as high capacity and strong copy protection, physical format details, how Blu-ray works by using a blue laser to read very small pits, comparisons to other discs, and applications like HD video and mass data storage. It was presented by four students and covers topics like the history and technology behind Blu-ray discs.
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The document discusses Blu-ray discs, including their evolution from earlier optical discs like CDs and DVDs, key characteristics such as high capacity and strong copy protection, physical format details, how Blu-ray works by using a blue laser to read very small pits, comparisons to other discs, and applications like HD video and mass data storage. It was presented by four students and covers topics like the history and technology behind Blu-ray discs.
The document discusses Blu-ray discs, including their evolution from earlier optical discs like CDs and DVDs, key characteristics such as high capacity and strong copy protection, physical format details, how Blu-ray works by using a blue laser to read very small pits, comparisons to other discs, and applications like HD video and mass data storage. It was presented by four students and covers topics like the history and technology behind Blu-ray discs.
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The document discusses Blu-ray discs, including their evolution from earlier optical discs like CDs and DVDs, key characteristics such as high capacity and strong copy protection, physical format details, how Blu-ray works by using a blue laser to read very small pits, comparisons to other discs, and applications like HD video and mass data storage. It was presented by four students and covers topics like the history and technology behind Blu-ray discs.
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CONTENTS Introduction Evolution of consumer optical discs Key characteristics Physical format How does the blu-ray work? Comparison with other discs. Applications Conclusion
INTRODUCTION The main objective of this presentation is limited to understanding the characteristics of blu-ray discs, format of the blu-ray discs, the disc-structure and recording and playback technologies, comparisons with DVDs and HD-DVDs and its applications among other things.
Why the name blu-ray disc?
EVOLUTION OF CONSUMER OPTICAL DISCS CDs in 1980s
DVDs in 1990s HD-DVDs in 2003 Blu-ray discs in
EVOLUTION OF CONSUMER OPTICAL DISCS (contd)
KEY CHARACTERSTICS Broadest Industry Support Supported by leading hardware manufactures such as Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG, Sony, Samsung, and many others
Lifespan 10 15 years
Cost Production costs are within 10% less than DVD production cost
KEY CHARACTERSTICS Capacity
(Cont)
27GB for single layer Blu-ray disc
54GB for double layer Blu-ray disc
Content protection Provides some of the strongest copy protection schemes ever
Robustness of disc Because of the hard coating for Blu-ray disc, the discs offer much stronger resistance to scratches and finger prints
PHYSICAL FORMAT Basic Parameters The Blu-ray Disc system has the following three basic parameters: Laser wavelength : 405 nm Objective-lens numerical aperture (NA): 0.85 Cover thickness : 0.1 mm
The capacity, which is in inverse proportion to the square of spot size, can be expressed as follows: Capacity ( NA / )2
Capacity vs. Wavelength and NA
The capacity of DVD with 650 nm wavelength and 0.6 NA can be increased 2.5 times by decreasing the wavelength to 405 nm, and can be doubled by increasing the NA to 0.85.
The structure of dual layer disc
Here, L1 is defined by the L0 plane sandwiched around a 25 m thick buffer layer, and the thickness of the cover layer L1 is around 75 m. This policy is still unchanged today, and the basic thickness of a Blu-ray layer is 100 m, a thickness that will be kept if multi-layer is adopted.
The track format of Blu-ray Disc is groove-recording, i.e., recording data only on groove tracks. For the groove recording method, lands are sandwiched between adjacent grooves to block heat transfer between the grooves, preventing signal quality deterioration due to the influence of data recording in adjacent groove tracks with a narrow track pitch. The track pitch between grooves in Blu-ray Disc is 0.32 m.
HOW DOES BLU-RAY WORK?
HOW DOES BLU-RAY WORK?(Contd.)
Discs store digitally encoded video and audio information in pits spiral grooves that run from the center of the disc to its edges. A laser reads the other side of these pits the bumps to play the movie or program that is stored on the DVD. Blu-ray uses a blue laser (which is where the format gets its name). A blue laser has a shorter wavelength (405 nanometers) than a red laser (650 nanometers).
HOW DOES BLU-RAY WORK?(Contd.)
The smaller beam focuses more precisely, enabling it to read information recorded in pits that are only 0.15 microns (m) (1 micron = 10-6 meters) long this is more than twice as small as the pits on a DVD. Blu ray has reduced the track pitch to 0.32 microns. The smaller pits, smaller beam and shorter track pitch together enable a single Blu ray disc to hold more than 25GB of information
HOW DOES BLU-RAY WORK?(Contd.)
In a DVD, the data is sandwiched between two polycarbonate layers, each 0.6-mm thick. Having a polycarbonate layer on top of the data can cause a problem called birefringence, in which the substrate layer refracts the laser light into two separate beams. If the beam is split too widely, the disc cannot be read. Also, if the DVD surface is not exactly flat, and is therefore not exactly perpendicular to the beam, it can lead to a problem known as disc tilt, in which the laser beam is distorted.
Blu-ray Disc Vs CD & DVD
Blu-ray Disc Vs CD & DVD
Blu-ray Disc Vs CD & DVD
Due to the fact that the data layer on a Blu-ray Disc is placed much "closer" to the laser lens than in DVD (or even the HD-DVD proposal), there is less distortion resulting in significantly improved tolerances. More precision and ultra high storage densities are made possible. As a result of Blu-ray Disc being manufactured as a single substrate, the manufacturing process does not involve the bonding of two substrates, resulting in less production material, a shorter production time and hence lower production costs per disc.
Blu-ray Disc Vs CD & DVD
APPLICATIONS High Definition Television Recording The Blu-ray disc format offers consumers the ablility to record their high definition television broadcast in their original quality, preserving the pure picture and audio level as offered by the broadcaster.
High Definition Video Distribution
Depending on the encoding method, there is room for more than 7 hours of the highest HD quality video. There is even room for additional content such as special features and other bonus material to accompany the high definition movie
High Definition Camcorder Archiving
The Blu-ray disc format, with its unprecedented storage capacity, allows for HD video recorded with an HD camcorder to be converted and recorded on a Blu-ray disc. Furthermore, the disc can be safely stored for many years, without the tape wears
APPLICATIONS Mass Data Storage The Blu-ray disc format offers 5 to 10 times as much capacity as traditional DVD resulting in 25 to 50GB of data to be stored on a single rewritable disc. As Blu-ray disc uses the same form factor as CD and DVD, this allows for Blu-ray disc drives that can still read and write to CD and DVD media as well.
Digital Asset Management and Professional Storage
Due to its high capacity, low cost per GB and extremely versatile ways of transferring data from one device to another, the format is optimized for Digital Asset Management and Professional applications that require vast amounts of storage space.
CONCLUSION In 1997, a new technology emerged that brought digital sound and video into homes all
over the world. It was called DVD.
The industry is set for yet another
revolution with the introduction of Blu-ray Discs (BD). With their high storage capacity, Blu-ray discs can hold and playback large quantities of high-definition video and audio, as well as photos, data and other digital content.
