NEC develops CD, DVD, HD-DVD drive prototype
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KAWASAKI, JAPAN - Engineers at NECÂ have developed a prototype optical disc drive that supports the new HD-DVD format and is also compatible with CD and DVD formats, they said Wednesday.
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CHIBA, JAPAN -- Sanyo Electric unveiled a prototype player supporting the next-generation optical disc format HD-DVD at the Ceatec 2004 show here this week.
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Memory-Tech and Toshiba today announced that they have jointly developed a dual-layer ROM (read-only) disc that can store content in both the HD DVD and DVD formats.
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Will the competing next-generation optical disc standards ever meet in the same device? Not for now, it seems.
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Electronics giant confirms its upcoming console will use the a high-capacity medium, and that it is working on backwards-compatible DVD/CD/BD-ROM reader.
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Tokyo, December 8: Toshiba Corp and a Japanese disc maker said on Tuesday they had developed a disc that can store content in both conventional and high-definition DVD formats, in a move they hope will strengthen their hand in a battle for the next
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Samsung Electronics is shipping hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory. The company claims that the system delivers a 70% to 90% cut in power consumption thanks to its ability to use NAND for caching data.
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A laser capable of being focused to a spot on a rotating disk just 80 nanometers across, is what Fujitsu needed to be able to beat competitors Toshiba and Seagate, in the race toward terabit areal densities. Yesterday, Fujitsu announced they'd achieved that goal.
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Iomega introduces enhancements to its dual-interface line of eGo external, portable hard disk drives.
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Toshiba with NEC and Sanyo, are backing the next-generation DVD&#39;s called HD-DVD or High-Definition DVD. According to Toshiba and a disc maker, they have developed a dual-layer ROM disc which stores data in
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Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG) is covering all the bases in optical storage technology with a PC drive that that reads and writes CD, DVD and next-generation Blu-ray high-definition television disks.
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The Korean electronics maker debuted the second iteration of its external drive that can read both next generation formats, and write to Blu-ray discs.
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Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.
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(InfoWorld) - Hitachi Maxell has developed a thin optical disc that could lead to data cartridges capable of storing terabytes of information. The Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc (SVOD) is less than a tenth of a millimeter thick and it's from this thinness that the technology has an advantage over current CD, DVD, and blue-laser discs, all of which are 1.2 millimeters thick. Many of the discs can be stacked together to realize a large data storage capacity in a small space, said Akira Ijichi, assistant department manager of the company's recording media sales department. Working prototype discs on show at this week's Ceatec Japan 2006 exhibition in Chiba, Japan, are based on DVD technology and each holds 4.7GB. Hitachi Maxell envisages cartridges of 100 discs would be only a few centimeters thick but would be able to offer a total capacity of 470GB, said Ijichi. To keep the discs safe each is housed in a protective sleeve inside the cartridge. The cartridge slots into a dedicated drive and the discs are pulled out of the cartridge automatically by a mechanism inside the unit and mounted into the drive. Making the discs so thin doesn't come without its problems. The discs are flexible but optical disc systems require a rigid disc so that the laser remains in focus on the disc's surface. To get around this problem, Hitachi Maxell has fitted inside each drive a 0.6 millimeter-thick piece of glass through which there are holes. Air is drawn through the holes when the disc spins causing the flexible disc to be drawn against the rigid piece of glass to make it flat. The disc marks a different approach than that of many competitors, which are fixed on increasing the storage capacity by using ever more complicated storage technology to cram data more closely together on a disc. HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc achieve higher because the storage bits are smaller and next-generation systems in development rely on holographic technology. Hitachi Maxell has basically finished development of the system but doesn't yet have commercialization plans, said Ijichi. It is considering working with an optical drive maker to develop a better drive for the system. It's targeted at commercial storage applications. The company says that a system about the same size as a tower PC and will be able to hold 4.7TB of data. A 19-inch rack mount model will be able to hold three times that amount of data.
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We test this next-generation DVD technology, and get mixed results.
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The first laptop computer to feature an HD DVD-R drive, Toshiba's Qosmio Q30, went on sale in Japan over the weekend.
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Israeli-based Mempile plans to demonstrate its TeraDisc technology at CES, where it plans to show a DVD with 500GB capacity. By 2011, it expects to have 1TB DVDs.