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minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoYears ago, for a while I had an external Blu-Ray drive, but I’ve never seen an actual Blu-Ray disc in my life. And this is coming from a nerd that’s repaired thousands of electronic devices.
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agowe always got the blue ray that came with a dvd and itunes. it was a bit more but was nice for the redundancy.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt just looks like a DVD, with a slightly purple tint. All Blu-Rays are is DVDs with denser data encoding. You probably have had one or two and not known about it, most games consoles use blu-rays now as well.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI’m very familiar with the technology, the discs indeed are a slightly different color, and the drives have an entirely separate extra lens and laser assembly to read them. And BTW, DVD-R is purple.
Years ago, for a while I had an external Blu-Ray drive, but I’ve never seen an actual Blu-Ray disc in my life.
And this is coming from a nerd that’s repaired thousands of electronic devices.
we always got the blue ray that came with a dvd and itunes. it was a bit more but was nice for the redundancy.
It just looks like a DVD, with a slightly purple tint. All Blu-Rays are is DVDs with denser data encoding.
You probably have had one or two and not known about it, most games consoles use blu-rays now as well.
I’m very familiar with the technology, the discs indeed are a slightly different color, and the drives have an entirely separate extra lens and laser assembly to read them.
And BTW, DVD-R is purple.