Overview of Blu-Ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable media technology

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the research and development progress on Blu-Ray Disc™ (BD) rewritable/recordable media for more than 20 years. The writable BD media had been developed for consumer use like video-recording/personal computer (PC) buck-up and professional use like broadcasting with increasing storage capacity and data rate. The key technology in each innovation was explained according to referenced papers.