In an effort to promote adoption of Blu-ray, optical-disk manufacturers are now lowering prices and PC manufacturers are offering lower-cost configurations.

Holographic disk drives have long promised to eclipse even the latest high-density optical storage media. Now finally, as Duncan Graham-Rowe reports, the promising three-dimensional approach to ...

The actual cost of manufacturing today’s optical discs, even Blu-ray disks is less than $1.00, most of the actual price of commercial optical discs is from the content license, profit for the ...

Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific ...

Panasonic's contribution comes in the form of the LB-DM9 series optical disk storage device, made to house twelve 100GB optical disks in a dedicated magazine coming in at a thickness of 20.8mm.

These new optical disks, while expensive, would make it possible to store all the 5.8 billion indexed web pages that power ChatGPT, in the kind of CD album we used to carry around in the 90s.

Ted says that broadband Internet connections, the iTunes Store, the Apple TV, the iPad and such technologies have made it possible for him to do all the things he once needed an optical disk for ...

A three-dimensional nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity has been developed at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to an ...

A team of researchers has developed an optical disc that holds an incredible 200 terabytes of data - over 4,000 times more than a Blu-ray. This isn’t just nostalgia; it’s a leap forward for archival, ...

Two years ago, Douglas Caldes, an Orlando engineer and entrepreneur, stood at the helm of a company that was within four weeks of gasping for its last financial breath. Every avenue of venture capi… ...