It’aIt’s an interesting contrast: Consumers are fast ditching videotape for DVDs and hard disks, but the people who make TV shows are sticking to tape for some cutting-edge applications. When it comes ...

LAS VEGAS — The backers of two competing formats for next-generation optical video disc systems spent the weeks leading up to International CES jockeying for position by releasing a spate of strategic ...

I got myself a new USB blu-ray drive last week, so now I feel the need to justify my purchase. Hence the following claim: optical discs will remain in use forever. Well, the rest of this century, at ...

Folio Photonics today announced it will showcase how it is reenergizing data storage media innovation with the first-ever enterprise-scale, optical disc data storage solution that delivers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

Toshiba Corp. next week will show a prototype laser diode for optical disc systems that are expected to hit the market around 2006. The company will use the Ceatec exhibition, which begins next ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. signed Thursday (Nov. 17) a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that they would establish a joint venture company in the optical disk drive business, aiming to be the ...

Forward-looking: As consumers increasingly turn toward digital distribution and data center operators try various storage methods, optical discs haven't stopped evolving. A recently published paper ...