Shuji Nakamura's blue laser diode exactly fit requirements for next generation DVDs: accurate, reliable, small and affordable both for manufacturing and running costs. It was a brilliant invention, and it offered the opportunity for a single, industry wide high-definition optical storage … [Read more...]
HD-DVD (High Definition Digital Versatile Disk) – blue laser optical disk
Despite High Definition Digital Versatile Disc HD-DVD) being the original DVD Forum approved successor to the DVD format, it was ultimately doomed, eventually consigned to history by the rival Blu-ray Disk (BD) technology. Originally called Advanced Optical Disc (AOD), the technology's … [Read more...]