Blu-Ray????

Sometimes, even the technology blog cannot answer a question. I found this out, when a friend of mine simply asked, "whatever happened to blu-ray discs? Weren't they supposed to be the next evolution from the DVD?" This got me thinking, and I realized that he was right, A few years ago when blu-ray was supposed to be huge, everyone was excited and could not wait for the disc to come out. Now, I own more DVD's than I did a few years ago. If blu-ray was supposed to be great, why don't I buy more of those?

First off, blu- ray discs are basically the same as a DVD or a CD. They are the same size, but they hold more information. Without getting into too much optical physics, the best way to explain this, is to say that the blu ray discs use a different type of frequency to read the disc, and because of this new way, you can store substantially more.

Now, back to the actual disappearance. Many of my friends don't have blu ray discs either, and I don't have a real reason to explain it. In my opinion, people were happy with the DVD, and didn't see a reason to go out and buy a new set of their favorite movies, when they already have them. I completely agree with this. I don't want to go out and buy a new copy of Jurassic Park (my favorite movie, for your information) just because somebody came out with a new storage system.

The people that make new types of storage need to leave the system that works alone. DVD's revolutionized the world, and everyone seems to be quite content with them. Keeping this system for another ten years is what we need. Then, it might be a good idea to institute the blu-ray, or whatever other type of video device we have