[UPDATE] A Panasonic representative has clarified that the Archival Disc is specifically intended for professional purposes, not general consumer use. "The development is specifically for professional ...

Electronic storage has been moving away from discs for quite some time. Music is kept on our phones rather than in giant CD books that get left in the car, important documents are kept on the cloud, ...

Manufacturers are powering up on their Blu-ray disc development, now the format war’s over: just two weeks ago we had the 6x speed ones, and now Delkin has these archive-quality discs. According to ...

A growing number of laptop computers are shipping without CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives, but the optical disc drive may have some life left in it. Sony and Panasonic have announced a new platform they ...

Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at ...

If you’ve been waiting for someone to come along and disrupt the Blu-Ray market, you’re in luck. An startup called Folio Photonics is attempting to take over the archival storage market, one ...

Intended for archival storage market; a single disc can store 1TB; available from 2024. Nanophotonic materials are embedded into multi-layer films. Folio Photonics, Solon, OH, USA, a developer of ...