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In the beginning of 2008 several main entities announced that HD DVD would no longer be the media for production.  Warner Bros. Studios would no longer release movies other than Blu-Ray format.  This included all of its studios that came under the Warner Bros umbrella also.  As well most of the major retailers also were committed to dropping the HD DVD media titles.

In February 2002 Blu-ray became an official project and the Blu-Ray Disc Founders was created.  At this time there still was no standard for Blu-ray.  On October 4, 2004, the Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association(BDA), and 20th Century Fox joined the BDA’s Board of Directors.

Blu-ray’s original codec in early 2006 was MPEG-2 the same as HD DVD.  In September the same year AVC and VC-1 codecs were introduced.  Movies were then released in October using discs of dual layer (50GB) or single layer (25GB).  Sony introduced the first re-writable blu-ray disc drive for the PC in July 2006.

Today Blu-ray is the far superior in both video quality and sound experience.  It also supports a full 1080P format.  A single format disc can store up to 25GB of data while the DVD format could only store 4 GB.

For those wanting to take advantage of the blu-ray capacity and create multiple copies of presentations or other large amounts of data to multiple Blu-ray discs check out disk duplicators: http://www.usbdevicelounge.com/miscellaneous.