The format fight between Betamax and VHS is an ancient memory, right? Actually, it might be time to get ready for the sequel. Today's DVDs, which store a maximum of 8.5 gigabytes in dual-layer mode, ...

If you’re enough of an early adopter to have an HD camcorder as well as an HDTV and a set-top Blu-ray player, you’re probably itching to create high-definition discs from your footage and present them ...

The end of the video game disc is rapidly approaching. BothSony andMicrosoft have increasingly pushed digital downloads over buying physical discs. That makes sense given that games delivered over the ...

Recent news from Sony and Panasonic about a new type of disc designed to hold up to 1 terabyte of data has the Internet buzzing about its implications. Could this be the piece of the puzzle we need to ...

Here are ten facts about optical discs that you probably didn’t know about. Optical media—a.k.a. DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs—have played a tremendous role in the development of video games for the PC and ...

It is easy to find technology success stories: the PC, DVD, and cell phone are all well-documented tales. However, it is a little harder to find the stories behind the things that didn’t quite take ...

Yesterday, I got my hard copy of The Division. Two and a half hours after putting the disc in, I was playing the game. With discs taking almost as long to install as digital downloads, taking up just ...

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Kid Friendly, Portable COLOR Personal Video Player With Collectible Personal Video Discs Allows Kids to Watch Today's Hottest Animation and Live-Action Programming Anytime, Anywhere Prompted by the ...

No, one of them isn’t that people still use discs. Most encyclopedias will describe optical media, or discs, as a "flat, usually circular disc that encodes binary data in the form of pits and lands on ...