We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90 per cent of the world's data was generated in the past two years. The obvious question is: how can we store it all? In Nature ...

London, UK. February 21, 2008 - Traxdata, a leading optical and flash media storage vendor, has today announced a European market first with the availability of its Double Layer(DL) DVD+R 16x media ...

Although Toshiba itself has walked away from HD DVD, it seems that some companies are still giving users the option to never let go (and understandably so). VidaBox is one such outfit, which has just ...

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 ...

As the technology world has been moving on from optical media these past few years in favor of digital downloads and flash storage, it would seem that DVDs are becoming a thing of the past. Only ...

Min Gu is a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Yaoyu Cao and Zongsong Gan do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today reconfirmed the flexibility and expandability of the HD DVD format with the announcement of a 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R (recordable) disc that extends the capacity for a ...

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 ...