3. 1 GENERATION: Compact Disc (CD) :- capacity 650/700MB Wave length of laser which reads data : 780nm Colour of laser : Red HISTORY
4. 2 GENERATION: Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) :- capacity 4.7GB Wavelength of laser which reads data : 650nm Colour of laser : Red
5. 3 GENERATION: Blu ray Disc (BD) :- capacity 25/50 GB wavelength of laser which reads data : 405 nm colour of laser : Blue- violet which was developed in 1996 by SHUJI NAKAMURA at NICHIA CORPORATION
6. THE NAME The Blu ray name is a combination of “ Blue ” for the colour of the laser is used and the “ ray ” for optical ray .
7. TYPES OF BD SINGLE LAYER: Can hold data upto 25/27 GB that means 2hrs of HD video or about 13hrs of standard video. DOUBLE LAYER: Can hold data upto 50GB that means 4.5hrs of HD video or more than 20hrs of standard video.
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13. BDA :(Blu ray Disc Association) This association develops and licences Blu ray Disc technology. (in 2002)