Thursday, March 13, 2008

Jump on the Blu-ray bandwagon!

If you haven't seen a movie in Blu-ray, you are truly missing out on a unique movie experience.

"I'm never going back to regular DVD's again," said Iowa City Kirkwood student Jordan Stamy.

First launched in June of 2006, Blu-ray discs were designed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition (HD) video with much larger storage amounts of data.

In comparison with other formats, Blu-ray technology uses a blue-violet laser as opposed to current technology that relies on a red laser to read and write data for technologies like DVD, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM.

"The background detail is amazing. Everything is so much sharper. The detail is literally ridiculous," said Stamy.

Warner Brothers, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate and MGM have all ceased making movies for the HD DVD format and have now gone Blu-ray exclusive.

Maybe it is time we all go exclusive with this new DVD format!

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