The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill seeking the abolition of the Optical Media Board (OMB), arguing that the agency’s ...

Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with the robots ...

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 ...

In context: While cloud storage and streaming have become the preferred way of consuming content for many, there remains a devoted crowd for whom optical media is irreplaceable. Sony used to be a big ...

Like with much of physical media, the onslaught against optical media is ongoing. In the latest hit against physical media fans, LG has discontinued its remaining Blu-ray players. However, this ...

My brother recently handed me a homemade DVD made from some vacation footage and asked me to try and recover it since it is pretty scratched up. Unfortunately, Mcgyver-esque solutions proved fruitless ...