Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blu-ray disc. A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of ...

Optical media sounds antiquated on the surface, but we're actually only a few innovations away from discs re-conquering the ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

Optical media discs might all look roughly the same on the outside, but it's what's on the inside that really counts.

Hard drives and flash storage have gotten more reliable over the years, but only on a human timescale. What if we need data storage that lasts longer? Decades? Millennia? The key to that might be 5D ...

On May 13, 2014 Pioneer and Memory Tech announced that they jointly developed "large capacity optical disk for data archiving" with a capacity of 256 GB on both sides and 512 GB on both sides.

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...