Tag archive: optical storage technology

With sales sharply down this year for all gaming consoles, even the surprisingly successful Wii, I’m starting to wonder if the market for consoles is fundamentally changing again, and whether folks are, like they did about a decade and a half ago, simply shifting their interests elsewhere. One of the ways to restore excitement in a hardware market is to refresh the hardware and come up with something new and sexy. But game… Read More

CEA also announced that the new Product Returns SIG will release a consumer survey exploring attitudes regarding product returns next week at CEA's Industry Forum, October 18-20, in San Francisco,Calif. The 2004 CEA Industry Forum, co-located with the fall meeting of the Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) and the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) Symposium, is the consumerelectronics event for industry networking,… Read More

The DVD+R Double Layer technology almost doubles the storage capacity of the DVD+R/+RW system. Up to 8.5 GB of data – which is about four hours of standard DVD video quality, or 16 hours in standardVHS video quality – can now be stored on a single disc. The disc is single?sided, which means that all content is directly accessible with no need to turn the disc over. CompatibilityRecordings on the new DVD+R Double Layer discs are… Read More