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Below you wil find a wide range of Blu-Ray Players available so please browse through our selection below. If you need assistance contact us so that one of our friendly team can help you. We are sure that we have something to suit everyone's home. To make it even easier, refine your search again by using the options on the left by price, manufacturer, and colour. Simply Electricals' retail outlets are easy to find and located on Halliwell Road in Bolton, Greater Manchester and Bank Street in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. Blu-Ray gets its name from the blue laser used to read/write on this type of disc. As the light beam has a short wavelength, more data can be put on a Blu-Ray disc than a standard DVD disc which uses a red beam light. This results in them storing about six times more data than a two-layer DVD and over ten times that of a standard DVD. All this extra data, as you'll have realised, gives a much better, clearer picture. These discs also store more data than DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, holding up to 25GB of data on a single layer disc and up to 50GB of data on a dual layer disc. This equates to 9 hours of high-definition video on a 50GB disc. Will Blu-Ray discs play on regular players? The answer is no as they use a blue light beam to read the data that a convential DVD player's red beam can't understand. This also applies to HD-DVD. Even though they both use a blue beam the technology is different so they aren't compatible with each other. Next question. Will conventional DVDs play in a Blu-Ray player? The answer is yes! They'll even look better than how they did in your old DVD player but will certainly not have the high definition you would get from a Blu-Ray disc. They'll also play your CDs. There are several brands on the market but they all offer excellent high definition quality differing only in the player's features such as BD-live. This supports internet-based activities like online gaming and social networking if there is an Ethernet connection to the player.