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In the ever evolving technological realm we witnessed the holographic discs that were rightly touted as the future of storage discs, given their capacity to store data equivalent to a 100 DVDs. But like in the mortal world where everything has a...

By next year, you could be able to lay your hands on the new blue-violet semiconductor laser diode that would be able to burn a dual-layer Blu-ray or HD DVD disc at speeds ten times the normal. Nichia Corp. claims their upcoming laser diode to...

HD-DVD and Blu-ray have not yet raised their heads and another new technology is here to make them redundant. The latest semiconductor laser technology, developed by researchers at Kyoto University, controls the shape of laser beams to deliver ten times.

You'll be able to get your hands on to Sony blank Blu-ray disks in Europe that will be shipped this month. But sadly you'll have to wait for the dual-layer versions, which will be shipped in the later half of the year. Though the single layer BD-R...