TAIPEI – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a research body backed by Taiwan’s government, plans next week to demonstrate a new optical disk format for storing high-definition video.

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

DVDs have stood the test of time, which begs the question: how have they managed to remain relevant for as long as they have?

Hardware and electronics makers are carrying on what has become a heated format fight as they ready new, high-definition DVD players for the market, choosing to build hardware for either the ...

Victor Company of Japan Ltd., better known as JVC, has joined the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), putting its weight behind the Blu-ray Disc high-definition optical-disc format. “JVC's decision to ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...

Sometimes we stumble upon a hack that’s not entirely new but which is still pretty exceptional. So it is with [Hèrm Hofmeyer]’s guide to recreating a film cartridge for the Kodak Disc photographic ...