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BD

Short for Blu-ray Disc, BD or BD-ROM is an optical disc jointly developed by thirteen consumer electronics and pc companies such as Dell, Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sony, TDK, and more. The blu-ray was first announced and introduced at the 2006 CES on January 4, 2006 and is capable of storing up to 25 GB on a single layer disc and 50 GB on a dual layer disc.

Today Blu-ray is backed by Apple, Dell, Philips, Pioneer, Sony, Sun, TDK and other companies mentioned above and won HD DVD in the high definition disc format wars.

Also see: CD definitions, DVD, EVD, HD DVD, HDMI, HDTV, Java

 

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