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Why is Blu-Ray called Blu-Ray?

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As the title asks?

Why is Blu-Ray called Blu-Ray?

I googled it and navigated to Sony's website.

"Why is it called Blu-ray?

Answer:
It is called Blu-ray because the laser that is used to write and read data is blue instead of red or infrared which is used for CD and DVD. It is spelt Blu instead of Blue because by law daily-used name cannot be registered as a trademark."

But isn't the laser diode 405nm and purple ???

Maybe it's just marketing. Purpl-Ray doesn't have the same ring to it.
 





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Gotta love it when people answer their own questions.

Actually they would have to call it Purpl-Ray. Sounds like a Prince album.
 
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But its just annoying and stupid that they are educating people with wrong information.

I guess we can all feel superior inside that we know the 'truth'
 
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Its like that with everything. If Pringles was called 'Fried hyperbolic paraboloid shaped potato/wheat slurry', no one would buy it. :beer:
 
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Tech_Junkie said:
Its like that with everything. If Pringles was called 'Fried hyperbolic paraboloid shaped potato/wheat slurry', no one would buy it. :beer:
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No one? you are kidding me, i would buy them.:crackup:


Whoever i wouln"t buy the Double Down Sandwich.
 
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It's because "near ultravilot diode laser used for DVD r/w purposes in a confined metalic space" was already taken.
HMike
 
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Wasn't it named after the dyslexic depressive guy that invented them but initially found no application for them? At least I think his name was Ray, wasn't it... ? :thinking:

Soon after that, though, they came up with a use and the name stuck...

The real reason they were marketed this way, however, was to get them into pointers. The whole re-writer thing was just a ploy to reduce the cost and provide us with a safe transit mechanism as I recall. All those who put them into DVD drives! Suckers!!! :crackup:

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rangedunits said:
No one? you are kidding me, i would buy them.:crackup:


Whoever i wouln"t buy the Double Down Sandwich.
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i would buy both, u hear about the lady who survived breast cancer? she ate 12 double downs and didnt die >.>
 
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Morgan --
I see you're on track ;)
I think it was Ray Bluemingthall who discovered this interesting diode wavelength.
It would inspire a bunch of Blueming inventors to create stuff not real Blue.

HMike
 
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Tech_Junkie said:
Its like that with everything. If Pringles was called 'Fried hyperbolic paraboloid shaped potato/wheat slurry', no one would buy it. :beer:
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:crackup:
reminds me of those chips they made with Olestra but on the package they warned that they sometimes caused anal seepage! and people still bought them cause they were diet.

Olestra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

also doctors use MRI's but the real name of MRI is NMRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging) they dropped the n since Nuclear scares alot of people
 
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Serac ---

You just said the word "Wheat" --- now I have seepage :-(

I want this forum GLUTEN FREE.

HMike
 
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Tech_Junkie said:
Its like that with everything. If Pringles was called 'Fried hyperbolic paraboloid shaped potato/wheat slurry', no one would buy it. :beer:
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Nice Niko! Well the name Vio-Ray doesn't sound good either. But maybe Viagra-ray. Oops that's already taken.
 
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