Blu-ray discs are outselling HD DVD by a ration of 100 to 98.71. Fueled by the rising sales of Playstation 3 equipped with Blu-ray player (and the cheapest at $500/$600), Nielsen VideoScan stats show Blu-ray discs is outselling HD DVD for the first time. The ratio is 100 Blu-ray to every 98.71 HD DVD discs, […]

Reports are stating that Japanese company Nichia have developed a blue-violet semiconductor laser diode with a high enough power to burn Blu-ray and HD DVD optical discs at up to ten times speed.

Samsung has announced the introduction of a new and improved SIM card solution, dubbed the S-SIM. The new SIM card technology will support present day MMC standard interface along with the USB 2.0 and InterChip-USB interfaces. It is based on the original SIM standard to ensure compatibility with conventional systems and support high-speed host […]

Apple may begin replacing hard drive based iPods with solid state NAND flash memory. The move in using an all Flash based iPod would make way for smaller and thinner iPods, and improvement in battery life, according to a report from Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora. “We believe that the video iPod transition from […]

About two weeks ago Sony backing out of an agreement with adult film studio Digital Playground to publish their movies in Blu-Ray. Digital Playground has decided to publish their works exclusively in HD-DVD format. There Joone, Digital Playground’s founder, and adult movie director, claimed that the US facilities that publish Blu-Ray discs told him that […]

U.S. scientists say they’ve encoded an entire image’s worth of data into a single photon, stored it and then retrieved the image intact. University of Rochester researchers say the ability to squeeze that much information into so small a space and retrieve it intact opens the door to optical buffering — the ability to store […]

Fujitsu claims that it has developed a key technology that would allow the company to quintuple today’s highest commercial storage densities in hard disk media. If researchers will be able to transfer the technology into commercial products, we could see 5 TB desktop drives and 1.5 TB notebook drives in the not too distant future. […]

Warner Bros.’s new disc, called Total HD, is expected to hit stores in the second half of this year. The format will combine competing Blu-ray and HD DVD technologies on a single disc. “It behooved us to figure out a way to transition (consumers) from standard definition to high definition DVDs,” Kevin Tsujihara, president of […]

Hitachi showcased playback of a four-layer Blu-Ray disc featuring a capacity of 25GB per layer. The company said that the drive used for reading was a standard Blu-Ray drive, at its booth at the 2007 International CES. There have been other academic reports of creating fourlayer (100GB) or even six layer (200GB) disc media by […]

Just after Seagate gave confirmation of there plans to give us a 1TB desktop HDD for the beginning of 2007, Hitachi is doing the same. However, according to Gizmodo, “The company, apparently, can’t keep a promise, since they originally claimed that it’d have one last year.” The Hitachi’s 3.5in Desktar 7K1000 will cost $399, 750GB […]

Seagate has “sent out an e-mail to the media letting us know that a drive of that size will be coming in the first half of 2007.” Seagate has offered their 750GB Barrcudda since April 2006 and now it’s time to get bigger. The from e-mail Seagate says, “Seagate’s 1TB hard drive will be our […]

Sandisk is taking advantage of the declining cost of NAND flash memory to offer replacement solid state drives (SSD) for notebook users, starting with a 32GB model. Previously, large capacity flash-based drives had been used primarily by the military, aerospace and telecom industries, which required reliability under difficult environmental conditions. However, NAND flash memory has […]

Japanese consumer electronics maker Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it has started the commercial production of blue laser diodes, taking aim at a market with strong growth potential. Sharp in November began volume output of blue laser diodes, used to read and write data on high-definition optical discs, at 150,000 units a month at its […]

Less than a month after the troubled launch of its PlayStation 3, Sony has rolled out its new high definition DVD recorder in Japan as it struggles to restore its tarnished reputation. Sony’s BDZ-V9 Blu-ray machine went on sale here Friday in time for the crucial year-end holiday shopping season with a price tag of […]

I-O Data of Japan launched its new HDMC rugged USB hard drive that is tough as you can get. Available in 8GB and 12GB capaciities, the USB hard drive is rugged enough to withstand drops from 48-inches and remain submerged in water for 30 minutes at a depth of 1 meter. To eliminate clutter, the […]