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Commercial HDTV sets began to appear in the consumer market
around 1998, but there was no commonly accepted, inexpensive way
to record or play HD content. In fact, there was no medium with the
storage required to accommodate HD codecs, except for JVC's
Digital VHS and Sony's HDCAM. Nevertheless, it was
well-known that using lasers with shorter wavelengths
would enable optical storage with higher density. Shuji
Nakamura invented the practical blue laser diode; it was
A blank rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD-RE). a sensation among the computer storage-medium
community, although a lengthy patent lawsuit delayed
commercial introduction.
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Sony started two projects applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical), and DVR
Blue (together with Pioneer), a format of rewritable discs that would eventually become Blu-
ray Disc (more specifically, BD-RE). The core technologies of the formats are essentially
similar.
The first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000.
On February 19, 2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray, and Blu-ray Disc
Founders was founded by the nine initial members.
The first consumer device was in stores on April 10, 2003. This device was the Sony BDZ-
S77, a BD-RE recorder that was made available only in Japan. The recommended price was
US$3800; however, there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were
released for this player. The Blu-ray Disc standard was still years away, as a newer, more
secure DRM system was needed before Hollywood studios would accept it²not wanting to
repeat the failure of the Content Scramble System used on standard DVDs. On October 4,
2004, the Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association
(BDA), and 20th Century Fox joined the BDA's Board of Directors.
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The Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were completed in 2004. In January 2005, TDK
announced that they had developed a hard coating polymer for Blu-ray Discs. The cartridges,
no longer necessary, were scrapped. The BD-ROM specifications were finalized in early
2006. AACS LA, a consortium founded in 2004, had been developing the DRM platform that
could be used to securely distribute movies to consumers. However, the final AACS standard
was delayed, and then delayed again when an important member of the Blu-ray Disc group
voiced concerns. At the request of the initial hardware manufacturers, including Toshiba,
Pioneer, and Samsung, an interim standard was published that did not include some features,
such as managed copy.
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that region. This is intended to permit content providers (motion picture studios, etc.) the
ability to support product differences in content, price, release date, etc., by region.
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equipped computer systems are required to support regional coding." However, "Use of
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Warner Bros. have released most of their titles region-free. Lionsgate and Walt Disney
Pictures have released a mix of region-free and region-coded titles. 20th Century Fox has
released most of their titles region-coded.
The Blu-ray Disc region coding scheme divides the world into 3 regions, labelled 'A', 'B' and
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countries plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
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Australia and New Zealand.
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and Russia.
In attempts to circumvent region coding restrictions, stand-alone Blu-ray Disc players are
sometimes modified by third parties to allow for playback of Blu-ray (and DVD) discs with
region code. Instructions ('hacks') describing how to reset the Blu-ray region counter of
some computer BD Disc player applications to make them multi-region indefinitely are also
regularly posted to video-enthusiast websites and fora. Unlike DVD region codes, Blu-ray
region codes are verified only by the player software, NOT by the drive and the computer
operating system. The code is stored in a file of the player program or in the registry. In
stand-alone players, it is part of the firmware.
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The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a standard for content distribution and
digital rights management. It was developed by AS Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS
LA), a consortium that includes Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Warner Bros., IBM,
Toshiba, and Sony.
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The first known attack relied on the trusted client problem. In addition, decryption keys have
been extracted from a weakly protected player (WinDVD). Since keys can be revoked in
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downloadable featurettes, downloadable quizzes, and downloadable movie trailers. Note that
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updates and are not used for internet-based content. In addition, Profile 2.0 also requires more
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advancing the technology. Quad-layer (100 GB) discs have been demonstrated on a drive
with modified optics (TDK version) and standard unaltered optics ("Hitachi used a standard
drive."). Hitachi stated that such a disc could be used to store seven hours of 32 Mbit/s video
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a single side, using six 33 GB data layers.
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High Definition optical disc process that extends the disc capacity to ten layers, which
increases the capacity of the discs to 250 GB. However, they noted that the major obstacle is
that current read/write technology does not support the additional layers.
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