Hot on the heels of the most successfu storage mediums of all time -- MiniDisc and Zip disks -- Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a ...

The Sony logo is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 31, 2023. PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images Sony confirmed this week that it intends to phase out the development and ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. signed Thursday (Nov. 17) a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that they would establish a joint venture company in the optical disk drive business, aiming to be the ...

As it turns out, this move was bigger than PlayStation itself. UPDATE: Sony has gone on record that their Thalgau disc factory are reducing disc production by 10 % on 2028. This means they will still ...

You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...

As a major fan of physical media formats, I've come to appreciate optical-based technologies for what they are. While certainly imperfect, they're nonetheless impressive on a technological level -- ...