Toshiba Corp. has developed a rewritable optical disc with a capacity of 30GB per layer, per side and a companion read/write optical head that incorporates a blue laser, the company announced today.

A team of researchers at Taipei’s National Taiwan University (NTU) have developed a prototype rewritable optical disc that can store 100GB of information and is compatible with existing CD and ...

You’re done with optical discs as a means of data and media delivery, or soon will be. But when done right, as it has been with Millenniata’s M-Disc, optical has a particular advantage ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW ...

Toshiba has developed a dual-layer rewritable optical disc for use with the blue-laser-based AOD (Advanced Optical Disc) format that it is developing with NEC. The disc — which will be ...

Pioneer is showing a 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray read only optical disc at an ongoing ... Pioneer plans to have these read-only discs available by 2010, rewritable discs between 2010 and 2012 and ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured. Refurbished drives and media ...

dual-layer, single-sided, blue-laser-rewritable optical disk. The new disk enjoys key advantages in that it can easily be brought to mass production with only minimal adjustments to current DVD ...

Phase change optical recording is a challenging technology for data storage that is used for CD and DVD rewritable discs. It is based on localized laser induced heating of a thin layer to cause a ...

Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just ... figures This ODD supports over 20 different disc formats from CD-RW to BD-R QL, which means you should be able to play any CD, DVD ...

TOKYO — The nine developers of Blu-ray, a rewritable optical disk system, will begin licensing the format next Monday (Feb. 17). Companies planning to develop, make or sell products using the format ...

A team of researchers at Taipei’s National Taiwan University (NTU) have developed a prototype rewritable optical disc that can store 100GB of information and is compatible with existing CD and ...