This locking mechanism is introduced in order to prevent piracy and illegal distribution of movies or Softwares.īut there is a solution. We all know that most commercial Blu-ray discs are locked and we can not make copies of them to other media like hard disks, or pen drives or another Blu-ray disc. When the copied disc gets damaged, we can take another copy of the original Blu-ray disc once again. But this solution may not be a proper solution as the children will repeatedly ask us to play their favorite Blu-ray movies and will be disturbing us when we are busy.Īnother solution to safeguard the costly Blu-ray discs is to make a copy of the Blu-ray disc and keep the original disc safely at one place. One solution is not to allow children to play with Blu-ray discs but to insert the disc carefully ourselves into the computer. Now let us see how we can find a solution to avoid damage to the expensive Blu-ray discs. The Blu-Ray format provides five times storage capacity of traditional DVDs and it can hold nearly 25 GB on single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc.ĭo you know how the name Blu-ray has come? The normal optical disc technologies like DVD, DVD+/-R etc depend on red laser to read and write data while the new Blu-ray technology uses the Blue-violet laser, hence the name Blu-ray. It is the new optical disc format similar to DVD format.
Blu-ray discs are costly and have more storage capacity compared to DVD discs.
It is a common that in our homes children spoil DVDs by physically damaging them.