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… ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A growing number of laptop computers are shipping without CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives, but the optical disc drive may have some life left in it. Sony and Panasonic have announced a new platform they ...

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 ...

Data storage options have evolved from magnetic tapes, diskettes, CDs, DVDs, to Blu-ray discs and as the need for bigger and long-term storage, manufacturers come up with better solutions. Sony and ...

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 ...