A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Stephen Tomkinson of NCC Group, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blu-ray disc. A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of ...

When it came to external storage devices that do not need any power, Floppy Disks, DVD Players, and CDs were popular options a decade ago. Then came the Blu-ray Disc. A portable storage device is ...

Announced by the Blu-ray Disc Association earlier this morning, the specifications on Ultra HD Blu-ray discs have been completed. This means Blu-ray software and compatible Ultra HD hardware may start ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.

Sure, there are plenty of Ultra HD televisions floating around the Las Vegas Convention Center, but how will you find anything suitably super high-res to play on them? Netflix, Amazon and a few others ...

The whole Blu-ray format's been a mess from the very beginning. We can't, therefore, quite suppress a derisory smirk at the announcement of two new Blu-ray disc specifications, neither of which will ...

Recent news from Sony and Panasonic about a new type of disc designed to hold up to 1 terabyte of data has the Internet buzzing about its implications. Could this be the piece of the puzzle we need to ...

The documentation site for the popular Linux distro, Ubuntu, has put up instructions on how to play HD-DVD and Blu Ray discs on the GNU/Linux platform. The short how-to guide walks through the ...

Having a backup gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside, and there's no better backup in my mind than one where I burn my data onto a disc, and verify that the new disc I've created is readable before ...

Facebook’s hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers’ homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.