The Advantages of Blu Ray Player Recorder

Blu Ray (not the sea dwelling creature) is the latest innovation in the digital storage and digital media technology. It is the product of several consumer electronic giants of today collectively called as the "Blu Ray Disc Association". The Blu Ray technology is the answer to the ever increasing need of a much larger storage capacity of optical disc. A single layer Blu Ray disc is capable of storing up to 25 gigabytes. It has a much larger storage capability than any other types of optical products in the market today.

Blu Ray disc are not only used for storing huge amount of data, they are also used for playing High Definition movies and other types of multimedia. Similar to other previous multimedia platforms (e.g. VHS, VCDs, DVDs and even HD-DVDs), you can save data, videos or other types of multimedia on a Blu Ray disc using a Blu Ray player recorder. Ever since the first Blu Ray player recorder was released in the market (released by Sony on April of 2003 for Japanese market), each one of the consumer electronic giants that belong to the Blu Ray Disc Association began releasing their own Blu Ray player recorder.

These days, more and more individuals upgrade from Standard Definition TV to High Definition TV (or HDTV) to fully take advantage that digital television (DTV) brings about. For that particular reason, the need for recording high definition content is rapidly increasing. The Blu Ray player recorder is primarily developed and designed for this particular need. It utilizes MPEG-2 compression standard; the same format that DTV utilizes. And because of that, the Blu Ray player recorder is very much compatible with the global standard used for digital broadcasting.

In order to meet the large amount of data that is needed for high definition video, the Blu Ray player recorder makes use of a 36Mbps (megabytes per second) data transfer speed; this rate of speed is more than enough to record and play High Definition digital transmissions at the same time preserving the original quality of the picture or video. Furthermore, by fully exploiting the optical disc's unsystematic reading features, you can play pre-recorded videos on a Blu Ray disc at the same time record High Definition videos that are being broadcast on TV.

There are lots of Blu Ray player recorders that are available in the market these days. The best way to secure your very own Blu Ray player recorder is by purchasing it on the internet. These amazing electronic appliances sold mostly on websites that provide consumer electronic products.