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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 ...

Jez Corden claims that the supply chain for Xbox and PlayStation to keep making optical disc drives is currently collapsing.

As the cd is gradually succeeded by the dvd for recordable as well as prerecorded formats, and as developers prepare Blu-ray — the next generation of optical discs that hold six times more data than ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...