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New DVD Technology Could Spawn from Mantis Shrimps

It's a widely known fact that humans use only three colors to make out the environment around them, and those are red, green and blue. While we have evolved to a point where we can make good use of our limited capabilities, and are proud of it, the mantis shrimp is way in front of us, in terms of performances. T...

26 October 2009
02:37 GMT

Hyperspace DVDs Will Hold 140 Times More Data

Standard-sized DVDs and BluRay discs could soon be made obsolete at their tens of gigabytes of data storage capacities, by a new, highly expected type of storage medium, which is currently under development in Australia. Rather than encoding the data stream in just two dimensions, such as in conventional systems, the...

21 May 2009
13:51 GMT

Toshiba Strikes Back at Sony's Blu-ray with Old DVDs

As you probably know only too well, back in the first half of 2008, the Japanese company Toshiba went through an extremely bad period, since it lost the next-generation format war waged against Sony's Blu-ray. However, it looks like Toshiba is not about to abandon its foray into the optical disc market that easi...

18 August 2008
03:51 GMT

New Lite-On Technology Renders Your DVDs Ultra-Secure

Blu-ray might be the optical storage media of the future, but that doesn't mean that the "old" DVD is dead. No, it is actually going through its best period yet, since discs and the associated hardware have just now reached a mainstream price/quality ratio. This is the reason why Lite-On (or better said, PLDS, t...

11 June 2008
02:02 GMT

Sony Helps You Watch Old DVDs in Full HD

Sure, the battle of the next-generation DVDs has ended with the clear victory of Blu-ray (the format backed-up by none other than Sony), but the fact of the matter is that the rate of adoption of this format is still pretty low, compared to the overall expectations. And this is the reason why Sony has decided to keep...

27 May 2008
01:49 GMT

Universal Studios to Finally Go Blu-ray

Just about everybody around the world has heard about the demise of HD DVD, the next-generation DVD format supported by Toshiba. However, there were certain major studios that were still legally bounded by contract to stick with the dead format, but it seems that those bounds have expired, as Universal seems to be pr...

17 April 2008
09:51 GMT

Toshiba Slams Italian Firm With DVD-Related Lawsuit

Over the past few years patents (or their infringement) have become the favorite lawsuit subject between various technology manufacturers, especially since these legal actions are generally associated with huge amounts of money in damages and possibly even the injunction of certain products on certain markets. And th...

28 December 2007
13:26 GMT

Want to Pay Just $3 For an Original, Legal DVD? Go to China!

Although China is the place where a large number of the world's consumer electronics (not to mention other products as well) are manufactured, the problem of movie piracy is an extremely important issue there, as cheap, illegal copies of original movies are available just about everywhere, at some pretty low pri...

8 November 2007
13:31 GMT


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