Neowin News Feed for: Optical

500GB 'DVD' unveiled

James Hall — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:05:26 +0000

According to the BBC, General Electric has developed a DVD-sized optical storage disc that holds 500GB of data. Using 3D optics, instead of the "2D" pit method of writing/reading data, the discs, which hold more... Read more...

LG GGW-H10NI Super Multi Blue optical drive review

Julio Franco — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:28:10 +0000

Call this a preview of even better things to come...The fact is we have had the LG GGW-H10NI Super Multi Blue drive in our hands for a couple of months now, however we did not... Read more...

TeraDisc Promises 1TB+ Optical Media

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:00:31 +0000

Blu-ray and HD DVD have pushed the limits of optical storage further than anyone thought possible. But a new technology has emerged which makes Blu-ray's 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it's able... Read more...

Intel Claims Breakthrough With 40Gbps Optical Chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:45:50 +0000

Intel Corp. researchers are a step closer to creating chips that transmit data at high speeds using light instead of electrons, but products based on the technology appear to remain over the horizon. On Wednesday,... Read more...

IBM Unveils Speedy Optical Chipset

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:59:22 +0000

IBM has announced the manufacture of a tiny optical chipset capable of moving data at speeds of 160GB per second. A prototype of the hardware, called an optical transceiver, is scheduled to be introduced Thursday... Read more...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Gets New Internal Optical Drive

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:24:06 +0000

Microsoft may not have taken care of the monster power brick, console overheating problems or the red rings of death but the company seems to have addressed the issue of the Xbox 360's extremely loud... Read more...

Update:Plextor Denies Plan to Cease Optical Drive Production

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:13:16 +0000

Plextor LLC, a leading supplier of optical disk drives (ODDs) that belongs to Japanese electronics giant Shinano Kenshi, said on Tuesday that it would not exit the market of optical disk drives, despite of announcement... Read more...

Intel P965, Vista to boost adoption of SATA optical drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:06:07 +0000

Intel's P965 chipset and Microsoft's Vista operating system are expected to speed up adoption of SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) and displace ATAPI (ATA packet interface) as the mainstream interface standard for optical drives in... Read more...

Super-Slim Lasers Promise to Boost Optical Disc Capacity

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:33:57 +0000

Researchers at Japan's Kyoto University have recently announced a breakthrough method for shaping laser beams that could result in optical disc capacities up to ten times higher than what's current available from state-of-the-art HD DVD... Read more...

Philips Unveils World's First Blu-Ray Optical Drive

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:09:43 +0000

New Drive from Philps Can Play CDs, DVDs, BDs. Royal Philips Electronics Tuesday said it would showcase the world's first commercial optical drive that can play compact discs, digital video discs and blu-ray discs at... Read more...

Neowin Does Paris, Neowin Does Optical Desktop

Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:39:16 +0000

Yesterday, Neowin headed off to a Microsoft hosted event in the center of Paris. 15 representatives of community MSN sites were also invited (including mess-france.com, mess.be, msgplus.net, msnfanatic.com, hardware.fr*) to see and learn about Microsoft's... Read more...

optical drive makers predict entry-level DVD recorder drop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:17:11 +0000

The price level of entry-level DVD recorders without built-in hard disk drives (HDDs) is likely to drop 20%-30% by the end of the year, Taiwanese makers of optical disc drives indicated. Taiwan-made entry-level DVD recorders... Read more...

New optical disc made from paper

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:28:55 +0000

Japanese electronics conglomerate Sony Corp and Toppan Printing Co Ltd have developed a new optical disc, made mostly from paper, that they say will be compatible with next-generation DVD technology. In a... Read more...

Intel gets optical with fibre

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:04:10 +0000

It's going to take a number of years, but optical fibre is going to get inside your PC. Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace copper wiring between motherboards and chips inside... Read more...

Microsoft Optical Desktop - Special Edition

Tom Warren — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:01:24 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled four new special edition hardware products: Wireless Optical Desktop Special Edition, Wireless Optical Mouse Special Edition, Optical Mouse Special Edition and MultiMedia Keyboard Special Edition. Dressed in icicle white and matte... Read more...

Plasmon shows off Blu-Ray Ultra Density Optical (UDO) drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:13:38 +0000

A WORKING VERSION OF a 30GB Blu-Ray CDR was shown at CeBIT this year. We missed this ourselves, but luckily CDR-Info had its eyes peeled a bit better than ours. "Plasmon, a... Read more...

Wireless Optical Mouse Blue

Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:09:28 +0000

Thanks to xStainDx, who noticed this on sale at Shop Microsoft . Looks like Microsoft has released another series of there awesome Optical Mice, the Wireless Optical Mouse Blue. Turn your... Read more...

Cisco Sharpens Optical Focus

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:57:11 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it expanded its optical line with an offering that allows enterprises to aggregate as many as 40 data connections over a single wavelength. The Cisco ONS 15530, set... Read more...

Ericsson touts optical fibre as local broadband alternative

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:13:26 +0000

Ericsson is bringing to Australia a bundle of products and services that may provide carriers and would-be carriers with an economical way of delivering broadband services including telephony, video and high-speed Internet into the home... Read more...