Blu-ray Disc offers an astounding 25 GB of storage capacity on a single-sided disc. That's enough for up to 5 standard DVDs on one disc. Imagine 23 hours of standard definition television, tens of thousands of music recordings. Today's ever-complex world demands the highest possible media capacity to deliver higher definition picture and sound quality. With unbeatable storage capacity and recording flexibility for content-owners and consumers alike, Blu-ray Disc delivers. Everything that DVD can do, Blu-ray Disc does and more. Blue laser technology enables up to 50 GB of storage -- five times the capacity of DVD. That's room for nine hours of HD. Or 23 hours of SD. Or tens of thousands of songs. Unbelievable data storage. From movies to music to games to PC software and file backup, Blu-ray Disc is your solution! The system embraces pre-recorded titles (BD-ROM), discs that you can record yourself (BD-R) and discs you can re-record over and over again (BD-RE). So we can anticipate not only BD players for your living room, but also BD recorders, BD-based game consoles, BD drives for your personal computer and even BD camcorders using compact 8 cm (3) discs! And what about your existing library of DVDs and CDs? The Blu-ray Disc system uses the same 12 cm and 8 cm disc sizes to support backward-compatibility with your CDs and DVDs and other optical disc formats. With up to 7.1 channels of surround sound and options for up to 32 streams of audio, B
