A few hundred movies on an optical disc? That's the goal of the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance. Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote ...

I felt especially embarassed for the booth promoting the FVD red-laser video disc, a Taiwanese “alternative to DVD.” Unlike HD-DVD and Blu-ray, which increase the storage of standard-sized optical ...

Just to make this whole mess over which standard will succeed the DVD, a Chinese business consortium and two Chinese DVD manufacturers are rolling out the Enhanced Versatile Disc, or EVD. The idea is ...

A consortium of companies developing a removable hard-disk system for consumer use called the Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage (iVDR) plans to unveil a prototype 1.8-in. drive with a ...

TAIPEI – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a research body backed by Taiwan’s government, plans next week to demonstrate a new optical disk format for storing high-definition video.