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 ...

Researchers in Australia have demonstrated a new storage technology that could potentially allow 10 terabytes to be stored on a DVD-sized disc. "To put that in perspective, that's the… capacity of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...