This year's Christmas presents could be sorted: scientists have invented a DVD-sized disc that can store millions of hours of video, enough for all your favorite movies and TV shows—and much more ...

Despite the widespread belief upon their introduction to the market in the early 1980s that CDs would safely store data encoded on them forever, CDs and DVDs are actually susceptible to damage from ...

Millenniata, a new optical disc company, has partnered with Hitachi-LG Data Storage to create M-DISC and M-READY disc storage technology that permanently etches data onto the write layer of the disc ...

At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba announced that it had developed a high-capacity HD DVD disc capable of storing 17GB on each of three disc layers, for a grand total of 51GB. It was good ...

It was two years ago when we last wrote about Millenniata and its Millenial Disc for ultra long-term data storage of somewhere between "1,000 years" and "forever." If you'll recall, it works using a ...

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 ...

Mempile, a manufacturer of optical storage technology, has demonstrated new storage technology capable of storing up to 1TB of data. Called TeraDisc, the storage media can record and read more than ...

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 ...

Millenniata, a newcomer on the optical disc scene, wants to revolutionize the way small businesses and government institutions approach archival media and data storage. The company, based in American ...

HAIFA, Israel--Matteris doesn't think optical discs, even Blu-ray ones, hold enough storage. The company, which spins out of Israel's technical university Technion, has devised a coating for 5.25 ...

A new type of archival storage technology has been developed with the potential to store a petabyte of data on a CD-sized disc disk yet remain backward-compatible with existing CD and DVD technologies ...

We don't know for sure when Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burners are coming to the UK (though the clever money is on Q4 or perhaps earlier for HD DVD), and we don't know how much they'll cost either.