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Sony's newly announced optical disc based archive storage system may in fact be 12 Blu-ray discs stuck together in a cartridge

A bug in the Windows 7 built-in Blu-ray burning tool causes failures if users try to use up the full capacity of these discs

A new bug fix release of DAEMON Tools Lite is now available to download

A new version of the popular disc burning tool, ImgBurn, has just been released

ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones

Sony has just unveiled 3 new Blu-ray burners that offer Blu-ray 3D playback, 12x burning of BD-R media and a copy of CyberLink's Media Suite 8

This week TDK unveiled its newest creation in optical media, the 16 layer disc capable of storing 32GB per side on each layer for a total disc space of 1 terabyte

Burn4Free is a free CD/DVD burner with ISO burning and audio compilations support

Sony recently announced they are developing a new type of blue-violet ultra-fast pulsed laser for optical disks that would increase storage capacity up to

Sharp has become the first company to launch a Blu-ray disc based on the BDXL specification that allows it to store over 99GB of data

The Blu-ray Disc Association has just approved a new format of Blu-ray discs that increases its total store from 50GB to 128GB but unfortunately is

A new company called Cranberry is offering a guaranteed new DVD disc though, which it claims will store data for 1,000 years and

Yesterday Toshiba filed a patent infringement suit against Imation/Memorex for ignoring Toshiba's patent right regarding recordable

Firmware HQ (FirmwareHQ.com) is a new website that allows you to download the latest firmware for your CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray drives

DVD Identifier is a tool that allows you to examine pre-recorded information on DVD/Blu-ray media, such as manufacturer information, disc speed, and more

According to DigiTimes, Pioneer has been working on a new Blu-ray disc that holds a smashing 1TB (1000GB)

Buffalo Technology released a internal & external 8x Blu-ray Disc drive nick named MediaStation

Maxell has come out with material to label your DVD that looks and feels just like real leather

SlotMusic is the new digital audio format backed by the big four record labels that carry no DRM out to replace physical media such as CDs

Sony has also made a prediction that Blu-ray is going to be the last optical media to come our way

The once avid supporter of HD-DVD quietly issues a update to allow burning on Blu-ray media on Windows PCs

Pioneer found a way to cram 25 layers on a Blu-ray disc each holding 25GB of memory

Pioneer makes a claim to have developed new media with 16 layers that can store up to 400 GB per disc

Panasonic just announced their new 6X BD-R media supporting a data transfer rate of 216 megabits per second

FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners

ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones

BitBurners did a in depth review of Maxell's 16X media and found out some interesting information

BurnAware Free Edition is a lightweight, extremely powerful and easy to use burning application for burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media, which is suitable for both beginners and power users

BurnAware Free Edition is a lightweight, extremely powerful and easy to use burning application for burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media, which is suitable for both beginners and power users

ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media and noted for its dual layer burning abilities

It is quite important to regularly update the firmware of your DVD recorder to broaden the compatibility of different media types and improve burns

A DVD info program that will give you information about your DVD drive, media, benchmarks and allow you to change DVD+R/W bitsetting/booktype settings

Mitsubishi and Pioneer have figured out a way to significantly reduce media manufacturing cost

The company claims that they can store up to 1TB (1,000GB) on an optical disc with the same dimensions—only slightly thicker—than a regular DVD and

MediaCodeSpeedEdit allows you to change the write speed for your media and to add new media codes to your firmware by renaming an already available media code

The PX-810SA is one of the fastest drives in the world that also includes multi-format burning to make sure your always covered no matter which format

Two of the very largest media brands, Imation and TDK, are no joined to one as Imation acquires TDK media

The single layer (BD-RE) disc's can hold up to a ginormormous 25GB of any type of data

The MediaBase is a database which contains and collects DVD recordable media quality information.

50 GB Blu-Ray disc have hit the market

When they say "Ideas for life", they aren't joking either, especially with this disc that holds a whopping 100GB and last 100 years

Large amounts of fake or counterfeit high quality media is surfacing all over the internet

Great drives at a low price will be no more for the optical drive maker BenQ

ImgBurn updates again with a huge changelog

Expand your compatibility horizons

Now thats alot of space

Memorex will be releasing recordable HD-DVD media that will hold 15 GB of data or video

Double the amount of recording time without the need to switch discs

Taiyo Yuden announces the release of their new single-sided dual-layer DVD-R (DVD-R DL) disc's

Verbatim Corporation announced today that retailers in Japan will receive shipments of the industry’s first 15GB HD DVD-R media early in July

NEC has offered its own-brand DVD burners without burning software for sale in the European market at an average price of below US$30

HD DVD content on one side and standard-DVD content on the other

DataWrite is one of the higher profile brands of the E-net Distribution. DataWrite media is very popular in Europe and has earned itself a decent reputation

Optical storage and consumer electronics manufacturers that support the Plus format for DVD recording, has announced the release of version 1.0 specifications for 2.4X rewriting on DVD+RW DL (Double Layer) media

TDK Corporation has begun shipping mass production samples of its bare, cartridge-free BD-R (write-once) and BD-RE (rewritable) Blu-ray Discs.

A media review done by CDR-Zone

Reduce DVD+R DL coasters by using DVD+RW DL

Ciba has filed a patent infringement suit in Germany and the Netherlands against RiTEK and its european subsidiaries

Verbatim has released their high speed 8x DVD+R Double Layer media manufactured as usual by Mitsubishi® Kagaku Media (MKM Media ID).

TDK will no longer make recordable CD's and DVD's

Ricoh Co., Ltd has developed recordable disks for Blue-ray Disk and HD DVD

TDK announced that it is to begin shipping 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD) media across Europe and will follow with 50GB media in April.

From the makers of Taiyo Yuden