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 ...

The technology, developed by GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co., differs from current optical storage such as Blu-ray and DVD, which store data only on the ...

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

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 ...

The new disc is based on a material called AIE-DDPR, which has a much higher storage density than other formats. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Although Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD technologies have yet to reach the mainstream, a Japanese company said it has made progress toward a more advanced holographic technology that may one day replace them ...

Using high-speed lasers, researchers have created "5D" data storage technology that could allow 500 TB of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc, according to the Optica society. The technique ...

After decades of research, the first commercial holographic disc drives are poised for their commercial debut. While CDs and DVDs store data only on their shiny surfaces, a holographic drive uses two ...

At a time when we are drowning in data and screaming out for better ways to safely store our information, researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a solution which could ...