Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

With a huge industry support behind blue-laser disc technology I would say this will become the next step in optical storage after DVD, compare 4.7GB and 9.2GB (DVDs) versus 20+ gigs of capacity for ...

Toshiba Corp. has developed a dual-layer rewritable optical disc for use with the blue-laser-based Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) format that it’s developing with NEC Corp. The disc, which will be ...

TOKYO – Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disc format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disc, the company said Tuesday. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...

Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disk format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disk, the company said today. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...

Taiwan-based manufacturers shipped 19.57 million optical disc drives (ODDs) of all types in total during the first quarter of 2008, decreasing by 9% on quarter but increasing by 13.5% on year, ...