It’s an interesting contrast: consumers are fast ditching videotape for DVDs and hard disks, but the people who make TV shows are sticking to tape for some cutting edge applications. When it comes to ...

The Science and Technical Research Laboratories of NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, is fine-tuning a disc recording system that can spin as fast as 15,000 rpm--about 5,000 rounds-per-minute higher ...

Hitachi Maxell Ltd. has developed a thin optical disc that could lead to data cartridges capable of storing terabytes of data. The stacked volumetric optical disc (SVOD) is less than a tenth of a ...

Sony has announced a new optical media storage solution, comprising of twelve discs sandwiched together in a single cartridge for up to 1.5TB of storage. Sony has announced a new optical media storage ...

Using an innovative nanoimprint technology, Hitachi Maxell, LTD have succeeded in creating the world’s thinnest DVD media at 0.092mm thick. This makes the new disc approximately 1/13th the thickness ...

China has made a huge stride in technology with the creation of a new optical disk that can hold a vast amount of data—up to a petabit. The innovation comes from the smart folks at the Shanghai ...