[UPDATE] A Panasonic representative has clarified that the Archival Disc is specifically intended for professional purposes, not general consumer use. "The development is specifically for professional ...

A growing number of laptop computers are shipping without CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives, but the optical disc drive may have some life left in it. Sony and Panasonic have announced a new platform they ...

Electronic storage has been moving away from discs for quite some time. Music is kept on our phones rather than in giant CD books that get left in the car, important documents are kept on the cloud, ...

Manufacturers are powering up on their Blu-ray disc development, now the format war’s over: just two weeks ago we had the 6x speed ones, and now Delkin has these archive-quality discs. According to ...

New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for just $1 - cheaper than ...

Intended for archival storage market; a single disc can store 1TB; available from 2024. Nanophotonic materials are embedded into multi-layer films. Folio Photonics, Solon, OH, USA, a developer of ...

It was the best software around hands down. But I’ve stopped using it much since 2010. Evidently, this has been a broad market trend since nobody I know has burned a disc for a while. But I want to ...