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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 91. Chapters: 10.2 surround sound, 22.2 surround sound, Audiophile, Audio (magazine), Audio equipment testing, Audio system measurements, Bill Dudleston, Bit-perfect, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-spec CD, Bob Carver, Bob Heil, Code (audio standard), Compact Disc, Comparison of analog and digital recording, Direct Stream Digital, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS (sound system), DualDisc, Dummy head recording, Duntech, DVD-Audio, Edgar Villchur, Elcaset, European triode festival, Extended Resolution Compact Disc, Gianni Bettini, Golden ear, Gold Compact Disc, High Definition Compatible Digital, High fidelity, Hong Kong High End Audio Visual Show, Imm sound, Iosono, J. Gordon Holt, Jerry Harvey (inventor), John M. Eargle, K2 High Definition, List of Blu-ray Disc recordable manufacturers, List of Blu-ray manufacturers, List of DVD recordable manufacturers, Meridian Audio, Nagra, Onix Audio, Paul Wilbur Klipsch, PMC Ltd., Single-ended triode, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Sony MDR-V6, Sound quality, Stereophile, Super Audio CD, The Absolute Sound, Transport (recording), Tube sound, Yamaha MT-100. Excerpt: Blu-ray Disc (BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs. Triple layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple layers (150 GB) are available for BD-XL re-writer drives. The name Blu-ray Disc refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The major application of Blu-ray Discs is as a medium for video material such as feature films. Besides the hardware...