A Blu-ray DVD recorder is equipped with a novel optical storage medium. This Blu ray disc is regarded as the successor to the DVD. Was improved compared to the DVD, the storage capacity and the possible data flow, ie the maximum achievable data rate. Therefore offers a Blu ray DVD recorder when playing back movies recorded with this technique compared with the DVD much better picture quality. Of course, this picture quality is only useful if the TV is designed. The Blu-ray DVD recorders are backward compatible designed so that even a DVD and its predecessor, the video CD, or VCD can be played. The full power of a Blu-ray DVD recorder is only achieved when using the Blu-ray DVD.

Until about 2008, several systems were vying to succeed the DVD. At this time the purchase was one of the available systems are at risk because no one could say with certainty which of the systems will prevail. Most foresight proved the buyers who have purchased a Blu-ray DVD recorder. This system continued, as before the VHS video system for 2000, compared to competing systems by. Mid-2008, the production of competing systems set.

The name of the Blu-ray DVD recorder is due to the blue-violet laser beam back up, with the disc is described. Dispensing with the last letter in the word Blu is a marketing trick to make the name easier to protect. The technical specifications that have been lying to the Blu-ray DVD recorder to basically written in 2002 by the major companies in the entertainment industry established in cooperation.

As for the previous models are also available for the Blu-ray DVD recorder the opportunity to use it once or rewritable media. The disc is made with several layers of it. Each location offers the possibility to store data. Common are discs with two layers. This will take about 50 gigabytes of data. However, even those with more developed or more layers are partly already in the testing.