A couple of weeks ago (back when I should have been writing this post), the Ur-Guru and I had a conversation about archival storage. He wondered what was going to replace DVDs, particularly for photos, because he was running out of room for them. He has hundreds now, since he has never thrown any away; some contain data copied from floppy disks or magnetic tape, back in the olden days. Optical … [Read more...]
30 GB DVDs on the way
Just when you thought that new dual-layer DVD burner would last you a while, Toshiba and Clariant decide to dig in and create a 30 GB HD-DVD disc. HD-DVD itself is still in the prototype stages, as is rival format Blu-ray, so who knows whether we'll actually see production models. It does, however, appear that we're going to see a continuation of the compatibility problems we've had with DVD … [Read more...]
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