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Blu-ray appears to have the DVD lead

...Because Sony's Blu-ray disc technology appears to be the front-runner in the nasty fight to... Read more

28 November, 2005 by John Borland

JVC trials Blu-ray/DVD combo disc

...33.5GB of capacity. Blu-ray is a new read-only optical disc technology that increases the amount of storage on a disc with the... Read more

30 December, 2004 by Paul Festa

Double-sided disc combines CD and DVD

...from online file swapping and legal downloads from the Internet. Advanced audio disc technology -- including the DVD-Audio format -- has been around for some time... Read more

25 August, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

PS3 to play with Blu-ray

Sony officials will use Blu-ray Disc technology in their next-generation console, most commonly referred to as the... Read more

6 August, 2004 by Hirohiko Niizumi

Panasonic readies Blu-ray DVD

...Athens is one of the factors behind the expanding demands." Blu-ray Disc technology, which uses blue-laser light, allows for much greater capacity than... Read more

1 July, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Sony debuts blue discs

Optical storage discs using blue-laser technology store more data and are more durable, the company says Read more

27 April, 2004 by Matt Hines

Sony develops 25GB paper disc

Sony and Toppan Printing are making a new mark on Blu-ray disc technology. The two companies have been working for about a year on... Read more

16 April, 2004 by Matt Loney and Richard Shim

First blue-laser DVD recorder unveiled

...to be worked out. In February, the nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology -- a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers -- announced... Read more

3 March, 2003 by Richard Shim

New Crusoe notebook to hit US shores

...battery life are doing it through their approach to LCD technology and disc technology as much as, or more than, chip technology." The new Fujitsu... Read more

23 October, 2001 by Ian Fried

News Burst: Massive storage discs on Ricoh's radar

...the strategic alliance with Ricoh to develop its pioneering fluorescent multi-layer disc technology (FMD) which it believes will revolutionise the way consumers watch films... Read more

15 August, 2000 by Graeme Wearden
Mobile-Blu 1.1

Mobile-Blu 1.1

...designed to incorporate and adapt to the latest advances in Blu-ray Disc technology, so youll always be on the cutting edge!With Content To... Read more

27 January, 2010
CyberLink PowerBackup 2.50.1305

CyberLink PowerBackup 2.50.1305

...data using the independent restorer utility, saves archiving time with Stream-to-Disc technology, protects archives with password protection, and supports Blu-ray disc with... Read more

15 December, 2008

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