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Thanks to the latest technology advancements and innovations, we can now experience high-definition entertainment at the comfort of our own home. What more can a person who loves movies want than stay at home, cuddle up on a sofa and watch the latest blockbuster without having to go anywhere else. Ever since the Blue ray DVD player was introduced to the market, consumers were able to experience just that. The latest movies were brought into life, with crystal clear picture quality and powerful sounds that surrounded the whole area.

A Blue ray DVD player can play disks that use the Blue ray technology. The format in these disks that can do the recording, rewriting of data and also the playback of high-definition video. Unlike the normal DVD we see in markets, the Blue ray disk has a much higher storage capacity. A traditional DVD can store around 10GB, but a Blue ray disk could store between 25GB to 50GB. Users can put bonus content as well as various other interactive features to the user.

Blue ray disks with scratch marks can still be played on a Blue ray DVD player mainly because these disks are known to be scratch resistant.

Purchasing a Blue ray DVD player that will satisfy your desires could be difficult especially with the increased number of companies that manufacture such products. Some companies tend to claim that they understand the Blue ray technology and have come up with the best product. This can confuse customers and mislead them to buy the wrong product. It is always necessary to check up on branded products before purchasing one with high quality.

If you are in the look out for a branded Blue ray DVD player, check on leading names such as Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, etc and purchase the best product on offer. In addition to these players, the Playstation-3 comes with a Blue ray DVD player that is already built-in. With different innovations coming up, manufacturers of laptops have also integrated a Blue ray DVD player in some of their models.

In addition, Blue ray disk drives have been incorporated to a few desktop computers.

Playing standard DVD’s can be done on a Blue ray DVD player, but it should be noted that the picture quality won’t be of what a Blue ray disk will give you but of a normal DVD. Blue ray DVD’s can only be played on a Blue ray DVD player, therefore one needs to purchase a player with high quality to get the best.

Presently increasing numbers of users are turning to High Definition TV to watch the latest digital TV. And with this, the demand for recording high-definition content is also rising. However, high definition video consumes a lot of hard drive space.

Blu ray technology has been the answer for this problem. This technology makes use of similar MPEG-2 compression standard as DTV making it greatly compatible with the international standard for digital broadcasting. One dual-layer blu ray disc of fifty GB can store up to 6 hours of HD content. Though blu ray players are now available in the US and are more than capable of playing such high definition content, these lack the facility for recording high-definition content.

For this end, blu ray recorders have been created. These recorders use a 36Mbps data transfer rate which is adequate to record and playback digital high-definition transmissions while still preserving the original picture quality. Blu ray disc recorder can play video discs and at the same time record HD video telecast on television.

Blu ray recorders are currently available only in Japan and started off as almost a revolution to digital broadcasting. Several of the producers of blu ray recorders are Zenith, Yamaha, Sony, Sharp, Samsung, Pioneer, Philips, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, JVC, Hitachi, and Amex.

Customers in the USA and Canada have been waiting for the blu ray recorders for quite some time now. Though it is always speculated, it has not materialized. In the first 6 months of 2009, Panasonic, nevertheless, is slated to introduce the first freestanding blu ray recorder in the United States of America. Expectations for blu ray recorders make the market prospective, but blu ray recorders will encounter tough contests from the rest of the available HD recording tools such as the HD-TIVO and Cable/Satellite HD-DVRs.

Movie studios and other content providers are also demanding certain copy-protection requirements to be met by blu ray recorders. Additionally, as experienced by Japan, the price of blu ray recorders is very much on the higher side than the price of a standalone blu ray player (by now available in the US) which the US market deems to be quite pricey. Another factor to consider here is the price of HD DVRs. A blank 25GB BD-R Disc is fairly pricey.

Despite all the negatives, the introduction of blu ray recorders to the US is a much awaited phenomena.