Blu-ray

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Blu-ray
Developer Sony
Publisher Various
Systems PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Released June 20, 2006
Added to Museum February 10, 2010

Blu-ray, also known as BD (for Blu-ray Disc), is an optical storage format. It was launched on June 20, 2006.

Competition

It became the most popular format against the competing format, HD-DVD.

It was designed to supersede DVD, but it never overtook DVDs in popularity and was sold concurrently with them.