With MP3 downloads and online film streaming it sometimes seems that the optical disc is all but obsolete, despite relatively niche adoption of Blu-ray. But today Sony and Panasonic announced a new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Panasonic has announced a new line of professional Blu-ray Disc media designed for secure digital ...

[UPDATE] A Panasonic representative has clarified that the Archival Disc is specifically intended for professional purposes, not general consumer use. "The development is specifically for professional ...

A next generation optical disc format dubbed the 'Archival Disc' has been created in a collaboration between Sony and Panasonic. The new disc format is aimed at professional users who wish to put data ...

A growing number of laptop computers are shipping without CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives, but the optical disc drive may have some life left in it. Sony and Panasonic have announced a new platform they ...

Sony and Panasonic have formulated the “Archival Disc,” a new standard for long-term storage using optical discs, that can hold 300GB up to 1TB of data and is set for release in summer 2015. We first ...

Sony and Panasonic have announced that they are working together to develop the next generation of Optical Discs for Archive purposes Last year I wrote about Sony's Optical Disc Archive systems as an ...

Sony and Panasonic have today jointly announced a new type of optical disc, which they're dubbing the Archival Disc. As the name of the media would suggest, it's aimed at long-term data storage, both ...

Move over, Blu-ray: Sony and Panasonic have just announced a new optical disc specification with even higher storage capacities. The new “Archival Disc” format promises to store between six and 20 ...