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Ellen Says: Blu-ray Disc (official abbreviation BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the standard DVD format.

Its main uses are for storing high-definition video, PlayStation 3 video games, and other data, with up to 25 GB per single-layered, and 50 GB per dual-layered disc.

Although these numbers represent the standard storage for Blu-ray Disc drives, the specification is open-ended, with the upper theoretical storage limit left unclear. The discs have the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.

The name Blu-ray Disc derives from the "blue laser" used to read the disc. While a standard DVD uses a 650 nanometer red laser, Blu-ray Disc uses a shorter wavelength 405 nm laser, and allows for almost ten times more data storage than a DVD.

The laser color is called "blue," but is violet (purple) to the eye, and is very close to ultraviolet ("blacklight").

During the high definition optical disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format.

Toshiba, the main company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008, and the format war came to an end. In late 2009, Toshiba released its own Blu-ray Disc playe

Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion pictures.

As of June 2009, more than 1,500 Blu-ray Disc titles were available in Australia and the United Kingdom, with 2,500 in Japan, the United States and Canada.

Blu-Ray Discs can be clustered together in systems such as optical jukeboxes to increase data storage.

This increase of storage can span multiple terabytes and utilize hundreds of Blu-Ray Discs. These systems are currently the largest storage units using Blu-Ray technology.