Difference between Blu-ray and DVD, Higher optical quality of the Blu-ray
- A clear optical difference between the two media is immediately visible. With an up to five-fold higher resolution compared to the DVD, the Blu-Ray offers a gigantic look.
- Also, the sound quality is a lot higher quality than the DVD.
- The reason for these qualitative benefits is the storage space of the medium. On Blu-ray 25 GB (Single Layer) or 50 GB (Dual Layer) can be saved. The DVDs only store 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB.
- In the case of a Blu-ray the data to be written much closer together on the Disc. The size of the laser dot is on the Blu-ray just low and as a result, information is created for a lot more data compared to DVD.
- In addition, the Blu-ray has an interactive application layer. This layer is called BD-J, you owe, that you can marvel at the Blu-ray's often a great Film-the menus.
- To play Blu-rays you need a Blu-ray Player. This Blu-Ray Player has a much higher data transfer rate, the larger amounts of data compared to the DVD fast enough read-out to. Blu-ray drives are backwards compatible and can also play DVDs. The other way around is not possible.
In our next tip we will show you how to a DVD to hard disk copy.
