Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats simply evaporate once we move on to the next big thing. The recording industry sold 4.4 billion dollars worth of 8-track tapes in ...

So I have a bunch of DVDs, CDs, GD-ROMs (dreamcats), and am starting to burn a bunch of DVD-Rs and soon DVD+Rs. I have had a 200 disc binder for a few years now, and at first I thought it was great to ...

An optical storage method that could squeeze one terabyte of data on to a DVD sized disk is being developed by researchers in Switzerland, Greece and the UK. Their angular multiplexing technology is ...

Which DVD case is best? If you’ve got a mountain of discs loose in your drawers without a home to call their own, fret not. Whether you need a place to keep your discs at home or an on-the-go travel ...

At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba announced that it had developed a high-capacity HD DVD disc capable of storing 17GB on each of three disc layers, for a grand total of 51GB. It was good ...

Australia researchers have unveiled a new type of disc that stores 10,000 times more data than current DVDs and could be on the market within a decade. The discs store 1.6 terabytes of data, eclipsing ...

The tantalising prospect of DVDs capable of holding almost a terabyte of data – or several hundred movies – has been presented in a patent issued to US storage company Iomega. The US patent describes ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

Nobody knows what the future holds in store — or for storage. You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, as the industry has spent the past couple of years indulging itself in a knock-down battle over ...