CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next time your erratic blu-ray player refuse to play The Future is Blu's extra, it's probably not the excessive interactive Bonus or Live view feature but the disc itself. China is moving in ...

Universal Music Group is the latest company to get behind the Blu-ray optical disc, announcing its support for Sony's next-generation media format this week. Blu-ray discs will look like DVDs, but ...

Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data, or the combined storage capacity of about 15,000 ...

A device for testing next generation DVDs could help disc makers spot manufacturing flaws. TOPTICA Photonics of Germany has developed a reference drive for testing the quality of Blu-ray and HD DVD ...

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 ...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...