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 ...

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You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...

Forward-looking: As consumers increasingly turn toward digital distribution and data center operators try various storage methods, optical discs haven't stopped evolving. A recently published paper ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

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TOKYO – Pioneer Corp. has developed a technology that could allow it to cram 510GB of data onto a disc the size of a DVD, a company representative said. The technology uses an electron beam to make ...