Blu-Ray Disc (BD for short) is regarded as an advanced optical disc storage medium, which offers most families good opportunity to watch High-definition movies connected with their own DVD Player at home or on vacation.

The Blu-ray camp has recently rolled out new features for players, which include picture in picture options.

Sony, Philips, and Panasonic announced on Thursday that companies wishing to manufacture Blu-ray devices will now only need to attain a single license in order to do so. That’s a pretty big deal considering that 18 separate companies currently hold Blu-ray patents.
This new licensing arrangement will undoubtedly speed up the licensing process, and more importantly, will make the whole ordeal a heck of a lot cheaper for interested companies. But does this mean that we can soon expect Apple products to start shipping with Blu-ray drives?

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A few years back when blu-ray was just starting to come about, Richard Weber wrote in an article entitled “The Age of Blu-ray” detailing some of the main benefits of blu-ray technology:

Recently the decision was officially made that the blu-ray DVDs would replace the standard DVDs that so many individuals are used to. The Blu-ray DVDs are essentially better protected and durable as more of the DVDs are being sold. Many large companies that essentially use the Blu-ray DVDs have chosen to use this style for a variety of reasons. There was a lot of dispute between the blu-ray DVD and the standard DVDs and it became ‘format war’ in many ways.

Blu-ray is one of the two major High Definition disc formats that were vying to replace the current DVD standard in the U.S. market. As of February 19, 2008, only Blu-ray is left. However, information on both formats is being included here for historical reasons, and the fact that there still HD-DVD player owners and several hundred films available in the format.

Now, both HD-DVD and Blu-ray players are currently available, with units adding recording capability also available in some PCs and Laptops, to be followed, possibly, by Blu-ray recorders available possibly sometime in the future in the U.S. Market. As a result new players, or the possibility of recorders, in that format, will no longer be available going forward.

The Blu-ray player and the HDTV that you bought recently might have to be replaced by a enhanced version sometime soon -- if you want to stay ahead of the curve.

After having defeated the HD DVD in the high-definition format war recently, the Blu-ray format in poised to be extended for 3D encoding. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced Thursday that it set down the format for encoding full 3D 1080p content. This means, in the near future, Blu-ray discs will carry 3D movies.

Hollywood has been so enthralled with the recent renaissance of 3D in the theater that the Blu-ray Disc Association has finalized a specification for delivering full 1080p high definition stereoscopic video on Blu-ray discs. The format relies on an extension to the H.264 encoding standard, and provides for a fallback to 2D output on players that can't decode the separate stereoscopic images. It's been a long time coming, but along with a recent update to the HDMI spec and a coming wave of 3D-capable displays, the technology is now in place to deliver the full 3D experience at home.