Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology developed a groundbreaking 3D optical disc capable of storing up to 1.6 petabytes of data—equivalent to over 200,000 DVDs on a ...

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A team of researchers has developed an optical disc that holds an incredible 200 terabytes of data - over 4,000 times more than a Blu-ray. This isn’t just nostalgia; it’s a leap forward for archival, ...

The actual cost of manufacturing today’s optical discs, even Blu-ray disks is less than $1.00, most of the actual price of commercial optical discs is from the content license, profit for the ...

Optical Discs. Jackie Chan Blu-ray disc boosts solar panel efficiency by a massive 22% ... Even video games -- the last bastion of optical media -- have been moving toward the cloud.

I got myself a new USB blu-ray drive last week, so now I feel the need to justify my purchase. Hence the following claim: optical discs will remain in use forever. Well, the rest of this century ...

Blu-ray discs get optical check-up. 04 Nov 2005. A device for testing next generation DVDs could help disc makers spot manufacturing flaws. TOPTICA Photonics of Germany has developed a reference drive ...

Optical disc as the future of data archiving. Movies and music might move online but optical media get a new lease of life thanks to Frank Frankovsky’s Optical Archive. March 10, 2016 By Max Smolaks ...

New optical disc has room for 1,000 copies of Baldur's Gate 3. The DVD and Blu-ray era isn't over yet, as scientists demonstrate the potential for a laser-based disc with 125TB of storage space.

My main finding is that HDR is really important, and it’s far easier to know that an optical disc supports it. On the Roku 4 I have, for example, I streamed in 4K but without HDR.

Digital optical discs such as CDs and DVDs store binary data as microscopic variations in the height of the disc's surface, known as pits and lands. Bits are encoded as transitions between raised ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.