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A blue ray DVD is an optical disk storage format, designed to store high definition video and audio to replace the DVD. The blu ray DVD was first introduced to allow viewers, who were buying HD Ready televisions, to watch high definition video. Today, the blue ray DVD is used for both data storage and viewing high definition movies.

A blue ray DVD can store up to 50GB of data. Thats more than 10 times the size of the single layer DVD. With size disk, you can expect all blue ray DVD extras, all to be on the one disk, rarther than having 1, 2 or even 3 DVD disks in one case.

The blue ray DVD was once in competition with the High Definition DVD but on February 19, 2008, Toshiba (the main company supporting the high definition DVD announced that they was stop developing, manufacturing, and market the high definition DVD, which ended the high definition format war. (Therefore, do not waste money on buying High Definition DVDs, instead if you want to watch high definition, concider buying a blue ray dvd player).

Well how can I watch blue ray DVD's? Well the best and most affordable way at the moment is to buy a playstation 3. Generally, you can pick one up for about £280. They are constantly getting updated with the latest blue ray DVD features (such as bd-live, a new interactive blue ray DVD, allowing you to download further items from the internet and more).

At the moment, Blue Ray DVD's can be quite expensive in high street shops, costing £20+. However, the best place to buy blue ray DVD's are on the internet. There are many online shops that sell blue ray DVD's for a discounted price, much less than what high street shops sell blue ray DVD's for.