Right now, Sony's Blu-ray is, without a doubt, the optical disc format capable of providing the largest amount of space for one's data or movies. However, it would seem that things are about to change quite soon, since a company called Royal Digital Media plans to introduce, in early 2009, what can only be ... |
30 October 2008
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It's a rather well-known fact that Sony's Blu-ray format, despite actually winning the format war, is not exactly faring very well, its rate of adoption being still pretty far from what its supporters initially hoped. Nevertheless, this might soon change, since the Japanese company has just made a major bre... |
7 October 2008
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In the world of optical media, the Blu-ray format is undoubtedly the future market standard. The technology is bound to improve and this can only mean one thing: users will be able to acquire higher capacity Blu-ray discs for less the money. Even more, to make matters only better, it seems that this technological imp... |
7 July 2008
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Although most of us still rely on DVDs in order to pass information from one device to another, this procedure will soon be considered history. That's because Blu-ray technology can now allow more data to be stored on a single disk. But maybe, just maybe, this standard still has a fighting chance, that is if ind... |
30 June 2008
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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
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Researchers at the University of Technology's Centre for Micro-Photonics are currently developing a new type of optical media that promises to deliver huge storage capacities, ranging to a full petabyte. The disk will be able to host the equivalent of as many as 200,000 DVDs and will revolutionize the storage an... |
5 April 2008
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The format war has ended quite a while ago with a shameful defeat for Toshiba's HD-DVD. Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS) decided to celebrate the event with the announcement of the joint venture's first USB external BD-ROM drive that will arrive on the market later this year.The new BD-ROM optical... |
28 February 2008
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Optical media specialist Imation has just announced two new optical media duplicators that allow the user clone a CD or a DVD medium at the cost of a single click. Both the Imation CD Duplicator and Imation CD/DVD Duplicator do not even need PC connectivity, additional cables or software.The two duplication devices a... |
13 February 2008
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The battle format is about to end with a double-knockout, as two famous LED technology developer companies are cooking a new successor to rule over high-definition formats. Just as we thought Blu-Ray is about to become the next stable standard, Kaai and Soraa are trying to develop lasers and LEDs that will change onc... |
13 February 2008
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I do believe that almost everyone who's reading this article has used at least once in their life a floppy-disk. At some point, floppy's were the most advanced storage media around, and although their failure rate went through the roof, they were a lot better then cassettes (or, God forbid, punched cards). ... |
6 December 2007
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Call/Recall, a San Diego optical media manufacturer has announced the world's first optical disc to hold 1TB of data. The company claims that the disc has already been tested and is entering into product design negotiations with manufacturing partners. The disc technology is based around the former patent owned ... |
22 November 2007
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Exactly 25 years ago, on the 17th of August 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the very first compact disc at their factory near Hanover in Germany. The idea of a recording medium that can be read without actually touching it is in fact a little over 40 years old now as the first who introduced the concept ... |
17 August 2007
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