The Blu-ray optical disc format, once a bastion of hope for reviving the home entertainment industry, is struggling to survive under the assault of video-on-demand and downloads. In a new ...

Sony and Panasonic, who jointly developed the Blu-ray optical disc format, announced an agreement Monday to develop a next-generation disc with a far larger capacity.

Companies involved in Blu-ray Disc simplify the licensing process by providing a single point of contact for handling Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and CD royalties.

Pioneer has announced a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes which it will unveil at the ISOM/ODS2008 on July 13. The disk’s per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which ...

RITEK Corporation, the leading manufacturer of optical storage media in the world, will begin production of the new M-DISC Blu-ray as part of its manufacturing agreement with Millenniata.

Optical discs in general have experienced a decline in unit sales for the last several years with only the new Blu-ray format increasing in sales.

A team of researchers has developed an optical disc that holds an incredible 200 terabytes of data - over 4,000 times more ...

Sony revealed its decision at a press conference held by the Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF), an organization committed to developing and standardizing the next-generation optical disc format.

Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) founding member and hardware manufacturer Samsung doesn’t see much of a lifespan for the nascent Blu-ray optical disc format, but the format’s cheerleaders over at the ...

If you need more storage, you can buy blank Blu-ray discs that can hold 25GB or 50GB. A 10-pack of 50GB blank Blu-ray discs costs under $20.

Not much information here, but it looks like TDK isn’t going to be leading the Blu-ray optical market for much longer. Word is that Maxell is also working on a 200GB-capacity Blu-ray disc. Each ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...