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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia researchers have unveiled a new type of disc that stores 10,000 times more data than current DVDs and could be on the market within a decade. The discs store 1.6 terabytes of data, eclipsing ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

Which DVD case is best? If you’ve got a mountain of discs loose in your drawers without a home to call their own, fret not. Whether you need a place to keep your discs at home or an on-the-go travel ...

Nobody knows what the future holds in store — or for storage. You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, as the industry has spent the past couple of years indulging itself in a knock-down battle over ...

A multimedia war is looming over storage space, but who will be the winners in the fight for the third drive? Chris Field finds out Life is usually a compromise between quantity and quality, and 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 ...