Category Archives: Blu-ray/HD DVD

Discs, which will offer three times the storage of today’s DVD-R discs, will be available next year. OK – so they’re 15GB HD-DVD-R and 1x. 8x is the max they’re ever go, and they make it sound like a stretch … Continue reading →

Hitachi Maxell and a unit of Mitsubishi Chemical said Wednesday they will launch HD DVD-based write-once discs next year, a move marking the latest development in a DVD format battle.

More capacity, same price. The Blu-ray Disc Association said today that the long-term cost of manufacturing BD-ROM discs with capacities of will be in line with current DVD replication costs. 25 and 50 GByte media will become available this year, … Continue reading →

Toshiba and Sony this week as near as makes no odds confirmed there is no chance their rival blue-laser optical disc formats will be combined into a single offering. *sigh* I think the guy from Toshiba is right – and … Continue reading →

Storage company Iomega is looking to increase the capacity of DVDs up to 100 times, meaning it could, conceivably, create 800GB discs. Well, have another wild card in the mix. Sounds like this is an evolution of red laser using … Continue reading →