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Difference Between Blu-ray And HD DVD
What is Blu-ray?
According to Wikipedia, Blu-ray Disc (official abbreviation BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The format defines as its standard physical media a 12 cm (same as DVDs and CDs), 25 GB per-layer optical disc, with dual layer discs (50 GB) the norm for feature-length video discs and additional layers possible later.
What is HD DVD?
HD DVD is short for High-Definition/Density Digital Versatile Disc. It is an optical disc format used for storing high-definition video. Toshiba, a multinational manufacturing company, leading in the field of infrastructure, consumer products and electronic devices, developed HD DVD. However, lately, Toshiba has declared that it has stopped developing HD DVD drives or players. Like Blu-ray discs, HD DVDs are available in readable as well as rewritable formats.
Both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs were designed to compete with the existing DVD format. They offer greater storage capacities and the encoding methods they use endow them with a higher quality of audio and video playback. The two formats differ in the follow way.
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