Companies Approve New High-Capacity Disc Format
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A group of consumer electronics makers said on Wednesday they approved the format for a new generation of discs that can store five times the data of DVDs at the same cost -- enough to put a full season of "The Sopranos" on one disc.
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TEAC&#39;s Data Storage Product Division is shipping a new family of external hard disk drives. The new products include 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch devices ranging from 40 GB to 250 GB in capacity.
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Western Digital today introduced a new series of portable USB hard drives with capacities as high as 320 GB in a package comparable in size to a Nintendo DS Lite.
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Hard drives store 30GB and more in 1.3-inch packages.
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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Toshiba struck another blow for its high capacity DVD technology yesterday when it announced a new disk which supports both the existing DVD and the HD-DVD format.
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Multimedia suite Nero has received an update which enables authoring of both Blu-ray and HD DVD.
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Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC) has developed prototype read-only discs that can contain data stored in both the DVD and high-capacity Blu-ray Disc formats.
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Blue-laser disc format's standard adopts new video codecs.
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A multilayer dual optical disk would have one layer of data in the standard CD or DVD format, a second layer able to play one high-capacity format and a third layer for the competing high-capacity format.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
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New component contains the blue and red lasers required for support of the two disc formats as well as the associated lenses and optical receivers. Commercial production possible by end of next year.
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The increasing popularity of PC-based multimedia applications, particularly home video editing and downloading of films and TV shows from peer-to-peer networks, is driving demand for bigger hard-disc drives.
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Imperial College London researchers are developing DVDs that could hold 100 times more data than current discs.
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The growth in hard disk technology is set to continue with more storage in ever smaller products.
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Scientists working at London&#39;s Imperial College have come up with a way of radically increasing the storage capacity of optical discs.
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Slick CDs and portable DVD support, plus digicam choices and new security options.