Move over, Blu-ray: Sony and Panasonic have just announced a new optical disc specification with even higher storage capacities. The new “Archival Disc” format promises to store between six and 20 ...

Sony develops next generation blue-violet laser In case you were wondering about the future of optical storage after Blu-ray, including its handover to alternative flash-based formats, Sony has a… ...

Sony and Panasonic have developed a next-generation optical disc for enterprise storage with an initial capacity of 300GB. Dubbed the Archival Disc, it will have the same dimensions as current Blu-ray ...

Electronic storage has been moving away from discs for quite some time. Music is kept on our phones rather than in giant CD books that get left in the car, important documents are kept on the cloud, ...

Sony and Panasonic have formulated the “Archival Disc,” a new standard for long-term storage using optical discs, that can hold 300GB up to 1TB of data and is set for release in summer 2015. We first ...

Technology has come a long way since the introduction of the floppy disk that was introduced in the mid-1970s with MB’s of storage. At CEATEC this week, TDK has just unveiled their latest creation: ...

Neve Ioan, Israel – Mempile, a venture-capital funded technology developer startup based here, has developed a “next, next-generation” read/write optical disc system that will be capable of producing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

At Ceatec Japan, TDK highlighted a 1TB capacity optical disc—enough to hold a sizeable Blu-ray collection in the palm of your hand. The disc has a whopping 16 recording layers, where a 25GB Blu-ray ...

Terabyte hard drives are getting to be old hat… but what about removable media that can store 1Tb of data? It looks like it’s on the way. TDK showed off a 1TB optical disc at Ceatec in Japan last week ...