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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many years, DVDs have been a favored format of media, with countless individuals still taking pleasure in owning physical copies of their cherished movies and television shows. However, the rise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A typical CD storage rack tower - Thomas Nuehnen/Shutterstock Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats ...

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 ...

InPhase Technologies Inc. announced today that it will start bulk shipments of the industry’s first holographic disc drive this July in a format able to store 300GB of uncompressed data on a single ...

Scientists from China are currently working on an optical disc that could store up to 200 terabytes of data in the size of a DVD, as reported by IEEE Spectrum. This is made possible by storing data in ...