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Constellation 3D could be disc storage star
News Constellation 3D announced a tie-in with Ricoh Tuesday which should propel products based on its fluorescent multi-layer disc (FMD) technology into consumers' homes some time next year. Unlike DVD discs which are often double-sided, there is no...
[August 16, 2000, 12:05]
Blu-Ray Disc Next-Generation Optical Storage: Protecting Content on the BD-Rom
White Papers Together, they provide the BD-ROM disc with a level of content protection not seen in previous and currently competing optical disc systems. The BD-ROM content protection system takes a three-pronged approach to content protection, offering state...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
TrueDisc
Downloads Although disc storage is arguably better than a "shoe box in the attic", it still leaves your images vulnerable to data corruption over time. TrueDisc's optical storage format stores at least one identical copy of your data on disc in the...
[March 12, 2007, 7:00]
Sony debuts blue discs
News The Professional Disc lineup is aimed at libraries and other operations with high storage needs, while Blue-ray is meant for consumers that want to save memory-intensive digital content such as video.
[April 27, 2004, 9:25]
JVC trials Blu-ray/DVD combo disc
News Blu-ray is a new read-only optical disc technology that increases the amount of storage on a disc with the aim of allowing content producers to distribute high-definition movies. The combo "creates new possibilities for future software releases...
[December 30, 2004, 9:10]
Seagate DVR drive sports new streaming standard
Talkback Another Bleeding Edge Technology to keep an eye on is Rewritable Atomic Holographic Storage.raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 terabyte removable disc.highest analog / digital capacity available lowest cost per gigabyte longest archive shelf life of...
[September 10, 2003, 4:46]
Constellation 3D moves toward mega-storage
News Fluorescent multi-layer disc (FMD) pioneer Constellation 3D (C3D) signed a deal with optical storage device maker Lite-On Tuesday that will help C3D to develop disks with massive storage capacity. Because there isn't interference between layers on...
[January 20, 2001, 6:13]
Hitachi multi-layer DVD holds 200 films
News The report said conventional DVD storage technology allows up to two layers to be used on one disc, but Hitachi's breakthrough can boost storage significantly by allowing for multiple layers. Japan-based electronics giant Hitachi has developed a...
[May 20, 2003, 8:35]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HP is one of the first companies to announce the inclusion of Blu-ray Disc, a blue-laser technology that enables storage of up to 50GB on a dual-layer disc. Blue-laser optical disc formats are expected to take over for DVDs, which -- with a storage...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future
News A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-sized disc has been unveiled by researchers from London's Imperial College. The development team said MODS can potentially store up to one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of...
[September 27, 2004, 15:40]
Murdoch tips free digital recorders
Talkback Rewritable Atomic Holographic Storage raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 terabyte 3.5 in.removable disc.highest analog / digital capacity available lowest cost per gigabyte longest archive shelf life of any data storage media widest environmental...
[September 10, 2003, 4:35]
TDK cracks 200GB Blu-ray discs
News With a large capacity you need removable storage like a Blu-ray disc," Ikushima told ZDNet UK. Technology manufacturing company TDK has managed to push Blu-ray's capacity even higher, to create a 200GB prototype disc.
[September 1, 2006, 15:10]
China developing 'super DVD' format
News The new format, called EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc), will be playable only on EVD players and promises five times the image quality of DVD movies and a higher computer data-storage capacity, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
[October 28, 2003, 8:55]
Toshiba, NEC snub Blu-ray DVD format
News Toshiba and NEC will present details of their blue-laser format, called Advanced Optical Disc (AOD), this week at the Optical Data Storage 2003 conference in Vancouver, Canada. Toshiba said in a release that it has stored up to 36GB on a single...
[May 13, 2003, 11:11]
MSI launches hybrid HDD/SSD netbook
News MSI's U115 Hybrid netbook is unusual in that it uses both spinning-disc and solid-state storage technologies An 'ECO on mode' temporarily disengages the HDD; MSI claimed this mode extends battery life, as SSDs are generally more power-efficient...
[December 30, 2008, 10:45]
China developing 'super DVD' format
Talkback raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 Terabyte 3.5 in.removable disc DVR.will have highest NLO analog / digital / optical capacity available will have lowest cost per gigabyte will have lowest power requirement per gigabyte will have longest archive...
[November 19, 2003, 4:00]
Apple leaps onto the Blu-ray bandwagon
News Apple will lend its expertise in high-definition and DVD authoring to the development of the Blu-ray Disc specification, which is backward-compatible with DVDs and allows for the storage of up to 50GB of data.
[March 11, 2005, 8:35]
Disk-drive industry sees brighter future in store
Talkback raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 terabyte 3.5 in.removable disc.highest analog / digital capacity available lowest cost per gigabyte longest archive shelf life of any data storage media widest environmental conditions and tolerances only technology...
[September 12, 2003, 19:34]
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
News The smallest standard Blu-ray disc will have 25GB of storage space, plenty of room to hold a high-definition movie and extras, even in the old video format, Sony Pictures' Eklund said. As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition...
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
Massive storage discs unveiled
News Gb of storage on a credit card.upto 140Gb on a disc.does this technology have a future? The first is a disc that will store 50Gb of data -- compared with 17.5GB on a dual-sided, two-layer DVD disk -- which Maloney believes will be used initially to...
[April 18, 2000, 15:19]
