Blu-ray

Bullet PR client Panasonic New Zealand has launched the first Blu-ray recorder into the market, heralding the arrival of a platform that records and stores high definition (HD) content on greatly expanded digital hard drives.

TV One’s Close Up programmme covered the story in depth this week.

The new Blu-ray recorder also uses re-writable Blu-ray discs which contain more than six times the storage capacity of DVDs.

High definition content is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, as the proportion of HD content on television grows, along with the huge jump in user-generated HD content through the adoption of HD capable camcorders.

The name Blu-ray is derived from the blue laser beam which reads the data from the Blu-ray discs, unlike the red laser used with DVDs.