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Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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Major releases still coming out, and enthusiasts collecting discs.

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[–] 4 points 10 months ago

BluRay was possible because of the invention of the blue light LED to pump the laser @ 405nm. Before that, they were using red lasers over 600nm. But now we have LED lasers at 210nm that could double the data density on a disc media.

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