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The Motley Fool
June 13, 2005
Dan Bloom |
You Think Blu-ray Is Exciting? Holographic data storage, which is being pursued by a small private company called InPhase Technologies, promises to crush Blu-ray in storage capacity.   |
PC World
June 18, 2002
Kuriko Miyake |
Philips Shrinks CD to 1.2 Inches Blue laser technology supports tiny drive for use in phones, PDAs. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Willie D. Jones |
You Tell Us: Is It a Mirage or Is It Holographic Storage? The idea of using holograms to store data on computers has tantalized engineers since the 1960s, and now it finally looks like it's going to market. |
Home Theater
May 5, 2009 |
GE Disc Stores Half a Terabyte General Electric has developed an optical disc format using microholographic technology that stores 500 gigabytes, or about 100 times the capacity of a DVD, and 10 times the capacity of a Blu-ray dual-layer disc. |
PC World
October 3, 2002
Martyn Williams |
Philips Shows Off Coin-Size Optical Discs Miniature discs can hold 1GB of data, and could replace memory cards in future electronic devices. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n5 The Holographic Virtual Disc Alliance (HVD) has rallied Fuji Photo and others behind plans to develop optical discs that store a terabyte of data. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Understanding Double Layer DVD Recording While consumers around the world have enjoyed burning their own DVDs for a few years now, the inevitable question of "what's next" is now upon the industry. But double layer DVD technology is not new. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Don Labriola |
New DVDs Hold More You'll be able to record almost twice as much data on a dual-layer DVD. |
Home Toys
April 2006
Linda Simon |
Maintaining & Restoring your DVDs & CDs Do you aspire to improve tracking, protect your digital library, and make your sound and picture quality better? DVDs & CDs, as we all know, are not indestructible, but by following these tips you can keep your discs healthy and help restore them when they aren't. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Prachi Patel |
Five-Dimensional DVD Could Store 1.6 Terabytes Data is held in multiple layers, wavelengths, and polarizations |
Technology Research News
September 24, 2003 |
Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography. |
PC Magazine
June 2, 2004
Mark Hachman |
Paper Discs Sony and Toppan Printing have developed an optical, 25GB Blu-Ray disc, 51 percent of which is made from paper. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2004
Paul Shread |
Sony Bets on Blue Lasers Sony debuts a line of storage products based on blue laser optical disc technology. |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004 |
Angles increase optical storage Ten years from now, one thousand gigabytes of data -- the equivalent of 472 hours of film -- could fit on an optical disk the size of a DVD. That's just over 200 times the storage of today's common 4.7-gigabyte DVDs. |
Home Theater
December 7, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Discs That go Bump in the Light Scratch-Less Disc Industries has announced that their Scratch-Less optical discs are now available at various retail outlets throughout the country and online at major Internet retailers. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2005 |
Bits & Bites v24n5 The Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance plans for optical discs that store a terabyte of data... Browster takes the pain out of sifting through search results... |
Home Theater
June 26, 2002 |
Panasonic 3rd Generation DVD Recorder The new machine accommodates 12 hours of digitally recorded picture and sound on a double-sided DVD-RAM disc, and up to 6 hours on a single-sided DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc, thanks to Panasonic's "hybrid variable bit rate" technology. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
Data Longevity on CD, DVD Media There is a lot of cheap CDR and DVDR media that has marginal quality. For some applications like games, quality isn't critical. For irreplaceable, vital data like family photos, special events, vacations and family/friends memories quality does matter. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2005
Don Labriola |
Discs After DVD: Blue-Light Specials Early adopters of blue-laser drives will likely use them as storage peripherals. A variety of other optical-disc formats and streaming content-delivery services will soon be vying for the same consumer dollars, and DVDs themselves may continue to be the leading video storage and distribution medium through the end of the decade. |
PC Magazine
March 31, 2004
Jamie M. Bsales |
Robo Copier The Bravo II Disc Publisher enables hands-free, automated production of up to 25 CDs or DVDs per batch. |
Scientific American
February 7, 2005
J.R. Minkel |
More Bits in Pits A DVD-like system called multiplexed optical data storage (MODS) could take a run at holographic storage. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Don Labriola |
Better Ways to Label Your Discs Stop using adhesive labels. There are safer techniques for making great-looking CDs and DVDs. |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2004
M. David Stone |
Primera Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer Here is an optical disc printer that almost anyone will find useful. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2009
Mark Hachman |
The Bottomless DVD A new breakthrough could herald the 10-terabyte disc. |
PC Magazine
June 8, 2005
John R. Quain |
A New Dimension in Storage InPhase Technologies' prototype drive packs 300GB of data on one disc. |
Home Theater
August 25, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Panasonic Unleashes BDXL New Blu-ray recording format offers 100GB per disc. |
Chemistry World
February 25, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Diagnosing diseases with CDs A digital compact disc integrated with a microfluidic device to analyse cells has been developed by scientists in the US. The disc can be inserted into a standard computer disc drive for analysis and could be used to diagnose diseases. |
Home Theater
November 22, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
Green with Envy Over New Blu-Ray Triple Disc Recorder Sharp's three-in-one HD recorder is the first to combine Blu-ray Disc and DVD recorders with a hard disc drive. |
Technology Research News
April 20, 2005 |
Spiral Laser Beam Demoed Researchers have found a way to generate helico-conical, or spiral-shaped light beams. The unusual-shaped beams are potentially useful in trapping and manipulating particles in biological and medical devices, including biochips. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2005
John Keller |
Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing |
PC World
November 20, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
Blu-ray Burner Boasts Solid Software Bundle The Plextor PX-B900A optical drive performs well and comes with a top-notch set of burning programs, but it carries a daunting price tag. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
Troy Dreier |
Fix Your Discs We tested five popular cleaning and repair kits on deeply scratched CDs; they all clean well, but only one repaired more than superficial scratches. Alera... Allsop... etc. |
Technology Research News
June 1, 2005 |
Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2004
John Keller |
Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform. |
PC World
March 2004
Melissa J. Perenson |
Optical Drives: Simplified DVD Labeling HP's invention, due in drives soon, lets users burn labels. It uses the same laser that already burned the data to make a label on the flip side of the disc. |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1999 |
Networking - JVC's new MC-7000 Series of DVD-RAM libraries JVC's new MC-7000 Series of DVD-RAM libraries, or storage disc "jukeboxes," consist of three models having 260GB (100 discs), 520GB (200 discs) and 1.6TB (600 discs) of data storage capacity.... |
PC World
January 2002
Anush Yegyazarian |
Lean, Mean, DVD Recording Machine Pioneer's pricey PRV-9000 is a videophile's dream... |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Joel Johnson |
How to Fix a Jammed Slot-Loading CD Drive: Digital Clinic If you get a CD stuck in your mac notebook's slot-loading drive, don't stick objects in the slot. Try these tricks instead |
Home Theater
December 10, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Amazon Lets You Have It Both Ways Disc+ On Demand combines disc purchase with streaming. |
AboutSafety
May 8, 2001 |
Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely... |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Microsoft Says Streaming Digital Content Will Kill Blu-Ray Is there still going to be a place for Blu-ray as streaming video gets more popular? |
Home Theater
December 31, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
A Blu-ray Computer Pioneer Pioneer says they'll begin shipping one of the industry's first Blu-ray disc computer drives during the first quarter of 2006. |
PC World
June 2004
Jon Jacobi |
Burn DVDs by the Dozen Handy small-office disc duplicator by Primera Technology skimps on the software. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2005
Tim Gray |
Toshiba's Triple HD-DVD Play No one is ready to yield in the HD-DVD storage battle. |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005 |
Plastic Records Infrared Light Researchers have extended the sensitivity of photorefractive polymers so that they can be used at the common infrared communications frequency of 1550 nanometers. |
Home Theater
May 31, 2004 |
Panasonic DMR-E95H DVD Recorder Flagship "DIGA" features 160GB hard drive, up to 284 hours of recording time, DVD-RAM and DVD-R compatibility. |
Home Theater
November 18, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
BD Managed Copy Slowly Emerging The standard is in all discs, but compatible players have yet to follow. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
High-Definition DVD Blu-Ray and HD-DVD go head to head. |
