Several technologies are seen as successors to the standard DVD. These include High-Definition (HD) DVD (now on its way out), Blu-ray Disc (BD), Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) and Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD). With so many formats competing, it is similar to the old VHS, versus Beta wars, but with one main exception, the difference in quality between VHS and DVD was extremely noticeable, and this encouraged consumers to quickly and easily transition to DVD from VHS. With these new standards, however, consumers are not seeing the drastic quality difference of high-definition DVD over DVD, for example, and adoption has been slow. Additionally, the media players and the media itself are quite expensive. Overall the industry suggests that consumers are just not ready to leave DVD behind quite yet. 
 
Note: Should you choose to have your scanning or slide show completed with HD technology, we use BD technology. We support BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable recordable) media and Blu-ray video discs. For other disc media we support, please click here.