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Sony debuts blue discs
News The Sony Professional Disc for Data, which targets the business market worldwide, uses blue laser technology as opposed to the traditional red-laser system. Another group, including Toshiba and NEC, has been working on a competing blue-laser disc...
[April 27, 2004, 9:25]
Double-sided disc combines CD and DVD
News A group of record labels announced on Tuesday plans to introduce a new disc format later this year that combines CD and DVD technology. Advanced audio disc technology -- including the DVD-Audio format -- has been around for some time but has not...
[August 25, 2004, 8:50]
Sony develops 25GB paper disc
News Sony and Toppan Printing are making a new mark on Blu-ray disc technology. Another group, including Toshiba and NEC, have been working on a competing blue laser disc technology. The Blu-ray Disc format uses blue laser light and is considered a...
[April 16, 2004, 14:25]
Panasonic readies Blu-ray DVD
News Panasonic's parent company is set to release a DVD recorder based on the Blu-ray Disc format, as a standards battle over next-generation DVD technology heats up. Blu-ray Disc technology, which uses blue-laser light, allows for much greater capacity...
[July 1, 2004, 10:40]
Blu-ray appears to have the DVD lead
News Because Sony's Blu-ray disc technology appears to be the front-runner in the nasty fight to determine how the DVDs of the future are produced, movie studios and disc manufacturers are beginning to come to terms with the financial realities of the...
[November 28, 2005, 16:40]
Matsushita spins up 100GB recordable disc
News The same technology has also been used by Hitachi in a development project and in the DVR-Blue recordable disc format created by Sony and Phillips Electronics. Constellation 3D expects its partners, including Plasmin, to next year ship products...
[October 19, 2001, 11:46]
JVC trials Blu-ray/DVD combo disc
News JVC on Friday showed a prototype of a disc that combines standard DVD and new Blu-ray technology for a combined 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 aim of...
[December 30, 2004, 9:10]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
Talkback Since firmware needs to be upgraded, technically most of existing DVD players and drives CAN NOT READ the disc written by double layer technology. Imagine, you buy Sony’s double layer DVD drive, which is $50 higher price than normal drive, and...
[May 26, 2004, 20:12]
Hitachi multi-layer DVD holds 200 films
News Japan-based electronics giant Hitachi has developed a technology which allows 200 movies to be packed into a single DVD disc. The report said conventional DVD storage technology allows up to two layers to be used on one disc, but Hitachi's...
[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. Blu-ray Disc is competing with another blue-laser technology, high-definition DVDs, but the...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Toshiba, NEC snub Blu-ray DVD format
News Toshiba said in a release that it has stored up to 36GB on a single-sided disc and that the technology can be applied to consumer electronics and computer products. Toshiba and NEC will present details of their blue-laser format, called Advanced...
[May 13, 2003, 11:11]
Holographic DVD adds new dimension to storage
News The device uses the company's Tapestry technology to hold 100GB of data on a single CD-sized write-once disc as a succession of 1.3MB holograms. And Constellation 3D expects its partners, including Plasmon, to ship products based on its Fluorescent...
[April 5, 2002, 16:36]
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]
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
News As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts of the new disc formats on the table in favour of technology that's more than a decade old.
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
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]
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]
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
News Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnetics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc.
[February 4, 2005, 9:00]
First Blu-ray spec finished
News The Blu-ray Disc Founders group said the physical format for the read-only version of Blu-ray Discs is complete, so manufacturers can begin preparing to produce disks. Blu-ray Disc, and rival format HD-DVD, are considered next-generation DVD...
[August 12, 2004, 9:15]
Massive storage discs unveiled
News Gb of storage on a credit card.upto 140Gb on a disc.does this technology have a future? Blue lasers -- even better at increasing the read/write density of a disc, perhaps by as much as four times -- is also part of C-3D's plans, although the...
[April 18, 2000, 15:19]
New CD protection won't play on PCs
News Avex said only some of the tracks on each disc will be protected with Midbar's technology; unprotected songs will play on computers. The disc will be followed a week later by a greatest hits album by pop group Do As Infinity, called "Do the Best...
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
