While prices of Blue Ray devices escalated, DVD manufacturers were severly affected.
They seemed like extravagant indulgences at the time, but even those evolved into digital voice mail, laptops, DVD and Blue Ray players and all seem almost essential to daily life today.
One of the metrics that is used to gauge the format war is Google trends and HD DVD is clearly ranked considerably higher, but if you add the common misspellings of both formats the chart looks different and it is clear to see that many people misspell Blu-ray as Blue-ray.
The complete first season Blue-ray set of Star Trek: Enterprise will hit Earth at warp factor 2.5 on Tuesday.
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These new models feature ATI Radeon HD4670 video cards, a subwoofer, Dolby Surround II capabilities, 16:9 cinema-level displays, and Blue-ray optical drives.
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Until now, Vudu has only been available through consumer electronics products, like TVs, Blue-ray DVD plays and video game consoles, that carried Vudu.
At some point in the next decade or two, when 100-gigabyte blue-ray DVDs will barely contain the high-def Lord of the Rings trilogy, we'll be reaching the limits of 2-D.
Star Trek: Enterprise The Complete First Season Blue-ray six-disc set includes special features that include a multi-part documentary with new cast and crew interviews and includes new interviews with key people who worked on the project, including creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, production designer Herman Zimmerman, technical consultants Michael and Denise Okuda, writers Andre Bormanis, Phyllis Strong and more.
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Current Blu-ray lasers emit light in the blue part of the electromagnetic spectrum (about 405 nm wavelength).
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Nine consumer electronics firm agreed in February to standardize and promote a new format called "Blu-ray Disc" that uses a shortwave blue-violet laser to read more than two hours of high-definition content stored on a DVD-size platter.
The red, green and blue components of the signal are fed into three separate high-definition cathode-ray tubes (in effect, fancy black-and-white televisions).
On the opposite side, there's a Blu-ray drive (also with a large button), and a power button that glows blue.
They're also brighter than cathode-ray displays, thanks to improvements in design and manufacture, as well as the introduction of blue LEDs, made widely available in the mid-1990s.
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