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A new disc format made by Sony Corporation. It is primarily used to store High Definition video but it can also be used to store data like a DVD. Blu-ray uses a blue laser operating at a wavelength of 405 nm to read and write data. The small wavelength allows to store up to 200GB on a disc in 8 layer mode. A typical single layer blu-ray disc can hold 25GB. A popular video game console that uses blu-ray is Sony PlayStation 3.
Bob: "Do you have blu-ray?"

Tom: "NO. what's that?"

Bob "It's this new disc format made by SONY that can hold 25GB"

Tom: "so..."

Bob "It can hold HD content"

Tom: "Super cool"
blu-ray by PC helper December 22, 2007
A kind of disc made for watching movies on PlayStation and XBOX.
Adam: Do you have blu-ray?

Steve: Yes.

Adam: Cool.
Blu-ray by DanielD3NY February 22, 2020
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."
Blu-ray by Scott Salamander March 12, 2009
What is most likely to become the next form of media. It's the be used on the next-gen consoles such as PlayStation 3, X-Box 2, but you just never know with Nintendo. Movies will probably be used for it as well, as they can also be recorded on them. A single side can hold 25 GB, and dual can hold 50 GB, and get this, they're making a quad-layered one with 100 GB. That'd make one fuck of a Grand Theft Auto game. Overall, in 3 years when somebody reads this, Blu-Ray will be well known. The acronym for it is BD, for Blu-Ray Disc.
Because blue lasers are thinner and more precise then the current red lasers, it's now possible to store more on a single disc. A Blu-Ray Disc to be exact.

... Why are you telling me this?
Blu-ray by Magic Hobo January 23, 2005
One of Sony's new proprietary formats that is destined to fail.
The blu-ray is going the way of the betamax.
blu-ray by Todd Edwards November 9, 2008
1. Something the corporations should release from their million ton per sq. inch greedy jaws if they expect it to take off any time soon in this economy.

2. Something stupid ass motherfuckers like the ones who bought laserdiscs bought as soon as it came out to feel like they're on the bleeding edge, but having to update their players after each weekly update of the format for the following few years. Basically, people with more money than brains.
I have to buy this faggoty DRM raped Blu-Ray shit to watch any movie in HD? Screw those assholes. And screw their greedy hollywood clutches and the stores where they feel the need to lock up these precious pieces of shit like they were their mother's secret, stolen panties. What, it's not enough they threw all sorts of faggot, obnoxious, irritating bullshit schemes on DVD to try (and fail) to protect their precious, coveted masterpiece intellectual crockerty like Snakes On A Plane Director's Cut that only made pirates laugh while purchasers had to screw around with that crap?
Blu-Ray by fuckfaze December 31, 2009