Though you may have completely forgotten it existed, the MiniDisc was actually pretty revolutionary when it was introduced in 1992. It used magneto-optical technology and behaved a little like a hard ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured. Refurbished drives and media are ...

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 ...

Plasmonic waveguides open the possibility to develop dramatically miniaturized optical devices and provide a promising route towards the next-generation of integrated nanophotonic circuits for ...

TOKYO – Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disc format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disc, the company said Tuesday. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...

Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disk format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disk, the company said today. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...