Quantcast
Channel: Phys.org news tagged with:optical disc
Browsing all 14 articles
Browse latest View live

Pioneer Develops World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc

Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world.

View Article



Mitsubishi, Hitachi eye disc for cloud computing era

Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. and some other organizations plan to jointly develop a next-generation optical disc that can store 25 times more data than a Blu-ray Disc, with the aim of...

View Article

USB stick makes easy automatic backups to discs

There's really no excuse for not backing up your computer these days. Used to be that making a backup was a fairly complex task. But today's backup offerings make it pretty much a no-brainer. In the...

View Article

GE announces 500 GB holographic disc writer that runs at Blue-Ray speed

(PhysOrg.com) -- GE's technology research group has announced the development of an optical disc writer capable of writing 500 GB of data onto a disc the same physical size as a DVD, at roughly the...

View Article

Sony moves industry toward the creation of new mass-storage optical disc...

Sony Corporation today announced that it will be commercializing a next-generation optical disc archive storage system. Sony will also organize an Optical Disc Archive Advisory Group to promote the...

View Article


On track for terabyte discs: Making computer data storage cheaper, easier

Businesses and consumers may soon have a simple, cheaper way to store large amounts of digital data. Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed technology aimed at making an optical...

View Article

Fujifilm will introduce 1TB optical disc in 2015

(Phys.org)—Fujifilm is working on a new recording method for optical discs. It has developed the new method through the use of two-photon absorption in order to generate heat, and the report in TechOn!...

View Article

General Electric Develops a 500GB Optical Disc

(PhysOrg.com) -- G.E. has unveiled a 500 GB micro-holographic disc that is the same size as existing DVD's. The storage capacity is equivalent to 100 DVD's and is aimed at the archive industry but...

View Article


Five-Dimensional DVD Could Hold Data of 30 Blu-ray Discs

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many people think that Blu-ray will replace DVDs in the near future, a new study shows that DVDs may still have a lot to offer. Researchers have designed a five-dimensional DVD...

View Article


Study identifies risk factors for transformation of eye growths into melanoma

Eight factors may predict whether a choroidal nevus -- a benign, flat, pigmented growth inside the eye and beneath the retina -- may develop into melanoma, according to a report in the August issue of...

View Article

Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.

View Article

Team uses high-tech optical technique to pull sound from 125 year old recordings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have succeeded in using 3D optical scanning technology to effectively lift the voices from 125 year old recordings created by...

View Article

"Archival Disc" standard for professional-use next-generation optical discs

Sony and Panasonic today announced that they have formulated "Archival Disc", a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for...

View Article


Panasonic and Facebook develop optical disc-based data archive system for...

Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has developed Freeze-Ray, an optical disc-based data archive system in collaboration with Facebook. By collaborating with Facebook, Panasonic was able to...

View Article
Browsing all 14 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images