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Blu-Ray discs have more storage capacity — a LOT more. A standard DVD holds 4.7 gigabytes of data. ... If that movie is longer than two hours, you need two DVDs or a double-layer DVD that can store around 9GB. On the other hand, a double-layer Blu-ray disc can hold a massive 50 GB of data.
- Is it better to buy Blu-Ray or DVD?
- Can a Blu-Ray disc play on DVD player?
- Why is Blu-Ray cheaper than DVD?
- What happens if you put a Blu-Ray disc in a regular DVD player?
- Is it worth upgrading DVD to Blu-Ray?
- Is Blu-Ray really worth it?
Is it better to buy Blu-Ray or DVD?
Even without the resolution increase, which is significant, the compression quality on Blu-Ray is much better. DVDs have much lower storage capacity and use less developed codecs, resulting in many more compression artifacts.
Can a Blu-Ray disc play on DVD player?
Blu-ray will only play on Blu-ray specific drives and players. You cannot play a Blu-ray disc on a DVD or CD player. However, there are several brands of Blu-ray disc players and many new PC's are coming with Blu-ray drives installed.
Why is Blu-Ray cheaper than DVD?
Blu-ray Discs definitely cost more to manufacture than DVD, for a number of reasons: Because the cost of replicating equipment is much higher than for DVD, there are far fewer plants which can produce BD-ROM discs (a Sony division holds a large share of the market), so there is less competition.
What happens if you put a Blu-Ray disc in a regular DVD player?
To sum up, a Blu-ray player can play Blu-ray, DVD and CD discs. A DVD player can play DVDs and CDs only. Blu-ray discs cannot work with regular DVD players.
Is it worth upgrading DVD to Blu-Ray?
Blu-Rays are in general, absolutely more worth it. Not only is the picture quality greatly improved, but yes, the sound is also greatly improved. And commonly for things released before Blu-Ray on DVD only, then later released on Blu-Ray will have a different transfer.
Is Blu-Ray really worth it?
Well, the facts are in, and the verdict is: Yes, Blu-Ray is better than DVDs. It's better than streaming, too, providing cleaner, crisper imaging, more room for movie "extras," and overall a much-improved movie-viewing experience. But Blu-ray is also toast.
