Plenty of physical video formats have hit the mainstream over the years and decades - here are the most popular ones, ranked.

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new paper published by researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology teases that they've developed an optical disc that's capable ...

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The technology for next-generation optical discs already exists - the real question is whether it'll ever trickle down to ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...