A stock image of a DVD. Scientists have invented a new disc that can hold millions of movies. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS. DVDs have data encoded onto them in the form of microscopic pits and ...

With most home cinema kit offering built-in streaming services, the option of clicking a few buttons and having instant ...

That's enough data to store over 40,000 DVDs, or over 100 years of watching one movie a day. As IEEE Spectrum reports, that's around 4,000 times the data density of a Blu-Ray, and roughly 24 times ...

The thing that got me excited about the new disc format is that it isn't just huge – it's also very fast, with the company suggesting that we could be looking at over 300MB/s read speeds.

Microsoft got itself in the middle of a physical disk war when it released an HD DVD movie disc add-on for the Xbox 360. The add-on eventually shut down due to the Blu-ray format winning that war.

How many movies would you physically want to own if the events of Leave the World Behind were ever to come true? If your answer is around 14,000 or fewer, you may soon only need one optical disc ...

Sony says DVDs have a life expectancy of 30 to 100 years if cared for properly, but for some reason WB movies sold during that 3-year period are more vulnerable to disc rot, or DVD rot.

CD sales decreased 28% to 33.4 million albums and 100,000 CD singles. ... The compact disc led to subsequent formats such as the DVD and Blu-ray Disc, each of which stored movies, ...