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Blu ray technology simply known as blu ray disk (BD) is a next generation computer storage technology that is applied to the optical disk. To explain the blu ray technology one must first understand how it was created. BD was created jointly by the leading players in the field of electronics, computers and media from over 180 companies that formed the Blu Ray Disk association (BDA) the likes of Apple, Hitachi Dell and HP, Samsung electronics, LG Electronics ,Sun Micro systems, Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment to name but a few. This format of recording equipment was created out of the need to enable the high resolution or quality that lacked in other mediums of storage when recording data and information. It was thus created to hold more data up to 5 times as much as traditional DVD s and CD’s that is it can hold up to 25 GB of data at any one time on a single layer disk and double that on a double layered disk! The name ‘blu ray’ is derived from its use of the blue laser ray in encoding data being different to the red laser ray that is used by all the other recording mediums. Since the blu ray is of a shorter wave length than the red it is able to fit more data into the same amount of disk space thus maximizing the disk space better than red laser ray. One has to appreciate the wonders of modern technology to be able to appreciate the flexibility of BD technology.