Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world*. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which is ...

TAIPEI – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a research body backed by Taiwan’s government, plans next week to demonstrate a new optical disk format for storing high-definition video.

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

Apple gave up on optical drives several years ago. Citing Blu-ray Disc licensing issues and the growing popularity of Internet streaming, the company was able to leave CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives out ...