The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

Blu-ray was one of two high definition rivals aiming to replace DVD; it had higher capacity than its rival, HD-DVD, and wider ...

CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet.

A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of Shanghai have unveiled a new form of optical disc that can hold up to 200,000 gigabytes ...

Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical drives to use them. As such, Sony doesn't see the need to keep pumping out ...

LG Electronics on Thursday unveiled a high-definition TV recorder that combines a rising blue-laser disc format with digital video recording. The Korean electronics giant launched the device along ...

TOKYO — The nine developers of Blu-ray, a rewritable optical disk system, will begin licensing the format next Monday (Feb. 17). Companies planning to develop, make or sell products using the format ...

Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. said it would launch new Blu-ray optical disc recorders in November that allow more hours of full high-definition recording on a single disc than ...

Hot on the heels of the most successfu storage mediums of all time -- MiniDisc and Zip disks -- Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a ...