About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Floppy disk, Hard disk drive, Punched card, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, History of the floppy disk, DVD-Video, Floppy disk hardware emulator, Ultra Density Optical, Zip drive, LabelTag, MovieCD, Memory storage density, ROM cartridge, Degaussing, LightScribe, Magnetic storage, Optical disc authoring, LabelFlash, Photon induced electric field poling, Hybrid disc, Content Addressable File Store, Professional Disc, Recording format, Write protection, LS-R, Caddy, Paper disc, Fluorescent Multilayer Disc, Millenniata, Hyper CD-ROM, GameKey, Digital Multilayer Disk, Total Hi Def, BeeCard, Disk Cataloger, 5D DVD, VCDHD, Forward Versatile Disc, Live File System, List of Blu-ray manufacturers, CD publishing, Remote virtual media, Removable media, Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk, External storage, HuCard, Portable storage device, List of Blu-ray Disc recordable manufacturers, LD-ROM, List of Blu-ray disc replicating machines manufacturers, List of DVD recordable manufacturers, Yellow Book, Cartridge tilting, MSDC, High density storage media, DVD Multi, MODS Disc, Fluorescent multilayer card, Single density, Regional Playback Control, Infiniti, Native capacity. Excerpt: Blu-ray Disc (official abbreviation BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The disc diameter is 120 mm and disc thickness 1.2 mm plastic optical disc, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB (23.31 GiB) per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the norm for feature-length video discs. Triple layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple layers (128 GB) are available for BD-XL Blu-ray re-writer drives. Currently movie production companies have not utilized the triple or quadruple layer discs; most consumer owned Blu-ray players will not be able to read the additional layers, while newer Blu-ray players may require a fir...
