Toshiba Corp. has developed a rewritable optical disc with a capacity of 30GB per layer, per side and a companion read/write optical head that incorporates a blue laser, the company announced today.

Sony Optiarc has rolled out its next-generation line of half-height internal Blu-ray disc rewritable drives. The BD-5300S, BWU-500S and BWU-500S can all write single BD-R media at up to 12X and ...

Mumbai: Gobal leader in optical storage drives, LG Electronics has announced the launch of Blu-ray-enabled version of its popular Super-Multi optical storage drive series. Available in an internal ...

Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives. In a development that will likely cause headaches for some ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association this week announced plans to release a new commercial high-definition disc format that will offer up to 128GB of write-once capacity within months. The association also ...

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

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 ...