A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of Shanghai have unveiled a new form of optical disc that can hold up to 200,000 gigabytes ...

The storage capacity of Blu-ray discs is doubling, with companies including Sharp, TDK and Verbatim preparing to launch new discs that can store up to 100GB of data. Sharp will start selling the first ...

The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When you think of Blu-ray, you think of movies on a disc. You don’t think of a data center. But Facebook executives saw beyond that minor detail. Facebook has worked with a vendor ...

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 ...

Two decades after its splashy debut at CES, Blu-ray is still spinning in living rooms, even as streaming dominates the way ...

LG Electronics, the world’s leading* supplier of optical storage devices, previewed its Network Attached Storage (NAS) device and its broad line of storage options at the 2009 International CES.

Good news, folks. Remember that 6x Blu-ray writer from Hitachi that we found at COMPUTEX earlier this month? Well, there's now 6x media to go with it. Panasonic today announced the world's first 6x ...