In recent times, HD-DVD and Blu-ray were competing technology formats for creating and watching movies on DVDs. Neither was compatible with the other. Eventually, Blu-ray won the competition. Use the Internet to research the competition between the two (2) technology formats, and determine the key reasons why Blu-ray prevailed.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Provide a brief overview of the organizations that have developed and promoted each format. 
2. Examine the benefits and drawbacks of each format for users. Determine whether you agree or disagree that Blu-ray was the superior choice technologically over HD-DVD. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Examine the processing hardware requirements for both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences of each.
4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Summarize CPU data types and common data structures.
• Discuss common input / output technologies.
• Summarize the different types of data storage technology.
• Develop an enterprise architecture plan to address and solve a proposed business ethical problem.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in enterprise architecture.
• Write clearly and concisely about Advanced Computer Architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Student clearly demonstrates an understanding of concepts of the assigned topic(s) by posting his/her response in a primary thread in the Discussion forum.  Student’s primary response to the discussion topic/question(s) is comprehensive and persuasive,
§ Student’s primary response provides a comprehensive analysis of relevant facts, major points are stated clearly; supported by specific details and examples (minimum word-count requirement 150-200 per question/topic), 

§ Student’s analysis is supported by industry standards, authorities, citations, references, and provisions, 

§ Student provides substantive comments and analysis to other student’s posting(s) (2 additional posts in each week), 

§ In the response post, student addresses the class member(s) by his/her name,

§ No syntax error (spelling/grammar/punctuation) present,
§ Contractions (don’t, can’t, haven’t etc.) are avoided, 

§ First and second person singular number (I, me, you or your) are avoided,  

§ Each part of the discussion question is entered (in bold) right above the student’s response to each part of the question.  In other words, student answered each part SEPARATELY (in a single post) with the question printed in bold above each response, 

§ Relevant academic resources (in addition to textbook) from credible sources, such as peer-reviewed academic journals, periodicals, magazines, books from reputable publishers, reports and speeches from creditable sources (Government, universities etc.), are present and formatted in accordance with APA standard 6th ed.