Today we are going to talk about Blu-Ray. This new technology is used in the present days in high definition movies and the new Playstation 3 games. The name Blu-ray Disc comes from the blue-violet laser used to read the disc.

A Blu-ray Disc (also known as BR or Blu-ray) is an optical disc storage with up to 25 GB per single layered, and 50 GB per dual layered disc. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.

Blu-ray discs produce 1080p resolution video images that allow us to view the high definition image but for that we need a full HD resolution LCD or plasma television. Although, a HD Ready television will reduce the image resolution to 720p, but nonetheless, the quality of the image would be far superior compared to a traditional DVD.

The Blu-Ray players support all high definition recordings and all the additional capacity of the Blu-Ray Disc will enable the viewers to enjoy shows for longer hours.  Films available on Blu-Ray discs carry additional entertainment contents.  The Blu-Ray discs are provided with anti scratch coatings which make them more durable than conventional discs.

Other of the advantages of Blu-Ray discs is a new level of interactivity. Users will be able to connect to the Internet and instantly download subtitles and other interactive movie features. With Blu-ray, you can: record high-definition television (HDTV) without any quality loss, instantly skip to any spot on the disc, record one program while watching another on the disc, create playlists, edit or reorder programs recorded on the disc, automatically search for an empty space on the disc to avoid recording over a program, access the Web to download subtitles and other extra features  and  more specifically it offers you that ability to enter the menu functions while watching the movie through a special pop-up menu. Moreover you can watch picture-in-picture, which allows having a small window with video commentary while watching the feature film at the same time. If you prefer, you can only hear audio while watching the film (of, say, the director and cast members chatting about a scene) but now you can also see them, too, in the corner of the screen. This can be a real treat for fans of a particular film, actor or director.

This movie is about a boy named Percy who is, without knowing, a half god and his true father is Poseidon. The movie begins with Poseidon and Zeus talking about the theft of Zeus’s Lightning. Zeus blames Percy for this and wants the lightning back or he threatens to star a war between the gods that might end the world.

Because of this Percy has to find the real thief and take it to Zeus to prevent the end of the world as we know it. So the adventure begins and Percy and his friends must fight Medusa, go to the Underworld and other missions.

This movie is all about greek mythology and is a normal adventure movie. Although it’s good for spend our time and make a good laughs with our family and friends.

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Act 1-The Background LOL

This film is set 10 years into the future, in a world where humans are becoming extinct and vampires are the general population.

Act 2-The Conflict

Because of this, vampires begin to racionalize blood, because if they din’t they become wild and violent creatures. To prevent this from happening a vampire called Edward Dalton tries to find a substitute for blood when he stumbles in to the cure to the vampirism.

Act 3-The Resolution

In the end some vampires don’t want to take the cure and become humans again.

“Above And Below”

Ooowwww
Ooowwww

Sometimes I feel
Like I wanna leave this place for good
Under the ground
I’ll live down there without a sound
And never hear
These hissing voices all the same
I’ll disappear
Causing living makes me feel ashamed

Ooowwww
Ooowwww

I must believe
There’s more above us and below
I must believe
Stranded with this bitch called hope
It keeps me here
When all I wanna do is go
It keeps me here
When all I wanna do is disappear

If this is it
When all we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out and standing still
I’ll leave today
Cause there’s nothing left to keep me here
I’ll fade away
I’ll turn my back and disappear

The city moves
Lunges up right from the ground
The seething Earth
It opens up and spits us out
This vicious child
Nature never wanted us
This vicious child
A cancer burning black into it’s heart

If this is it
When all we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out and standing still
I’ll leave today
Cause there’s nothing left to keep me here
I’ll fade away
I’ll turn my back and disappear

Ooowwww
Sometimes I feel
Like I wanna leave this place for good
Under the ground
I’ll live down there without a sound
And never hear
These hissing voices all the same
I’ll disappear
Causing living makes me feel ashamed

If this is it
When all we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out and standing still
I’ll leave today
Cause there’s nothing left to keep me here
I’ll fade away
I’ll turn my back and disappear
I’ll turn my back and disappear

Ina few years children will have a different education because the augmented reality could be used to teach them in a more interactive way.

Computers may also be improved so they can be more portable and intuitive, maybe in the near future instead of using the mouse or the touchpad you could have the same technology used on touchscreen cellphones.

Because of the constant evolution of technology we can´t predict for certain how the future will be, but we can know for sure that multimedia will evolve in many ways and in different areas. And, who knows, maybe in ten years we may have a world like we see in sci-fi movies.

If we can do so many amazing things with multimedia in the present we can only imagine how the world will be influenced.