Sharful wants to copy some DVDs, but they contain more information than will fit on his blank discs. DVDs can be manufactured with either one or two data layers. Single-layer discs hold 4.7GB, and are ...

Pioneer announced on Tuesday a double-layer DVD burner that uses technology that competes with a format normally championed by the company. Pioneer's DVR-A08XL is designed to store up to 8.5GB on a ...

MCE Technologies on Monday shipped Lucid M8X, a portable FireWire 400 DVD drive compatible with DVD+/-R/RW and CD-R/RW media, including Dual-Layer DVD+R discs. It can write Dual-Layer media at 2.4x ...

One thing is for sure in the world of optical storage: "big enough" is never really "big enough." Back in the day, a typical CD-R was plenty to archive a year's worth of images, and now even a ...