A team of researchers has developed an optical disc that holds an incredible 200 terabytes of data - over 4,000 times more ...

Add to that this story from last year about researchers at the University of Shanghai developing a disc that can store up to 200 TB, and optical media is definitely not out for the count yet.

To put it into perspective, a diamond optical disc of the same size as a standard Blu-ray could hold 100 terabytes of data—equivalent to 2,000 Blu-rays—while far outlasting their limited ...

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Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs, are durable and inexpensive. A standard single-layer Blu-ray disc can store 25 gigabytes. By comparison, some USB flash drives can store 1TB, and ...

Details of this research can be found in the paper ‘ A 3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity ‘, published in Nature – this is a clearly-written paper, which makes extensive use of ...

No, all I can say is that the UDP900 is the best-sounding disc player in this setup by far, and the best-sounding disc player I’ve used since my Oppo UDP-205, which, unfortunately, has some sort ...

A disc with this capability should surely invigorate the 8K industry into making physical discs for the format, right? After all, this is our biggest gripe with the existence of 8K TVs. Unfortunately, ...

We love 4K Blu-rays, but scientists are on the verge of a breakthrough for optical media: A research team from Shanghai just published a research paper on Nature that explains how we can use “3D ...