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  Start-up claims its DVDs last 1,000 years

  If you really, really need to make sure those precious photos of yours last virtually forever - or at least longer than the average two- to five-year lifespan of consumer-grade DVDs, then start-up Cranberry LLC has the answer for you: a DVD that literally lasts a millennium.

  By Lucas Mearian | 13 November, 2009 09:13

  Tags: DVD, storage

• Are DVDs nearing the end?

  Watchers of streaming video trends are buzzing after a remark by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in a Montley Fool podcast that DVDs may lose their number one spot for the company's video distribution after two years.

  By Paul Suarez | 13 October, 2009 09:43

  Tags: DVD, netflix

• Researchers use nanotech to create 'fifth dimension' data storage

  A team of researchers from an Australian university has developed a new DVD technology that could someday boost disc capacity by 10,000 times beyond today's standard 4.7GB DVDs, according to a study published in the journal Nature.

  By Lucas Mearian | 22 May, 2009 02:30

  Tags: DVD, holographic optical disc storage, optical disc, storage

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  Toshiba sues Imation and others over DVD patents

  Toshiba filed suit Thursday in a U.S. court against Imation and several manufacturers and distributors of recordable DVD media for the alleged infringement of its patents.

  By John Ribeiro | 18 May, 2009 04:30

  Tags: DVD, imation, legal, patents, toshiba

• RealDVD for legitimate users, CEO tells court

  RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser took the stand Tuesday in his company's ongoing legal battle against the motion picture industry, arguing that RealNetworks' DVD-copying software is not designed to create a free-for-all of illegal copying.

  By Robert McMillan | 29 April, 2009 11:32

  Tags: DVD, realdvd

• GE crams 500GB of data on DVD with holographic tech

  General Electric Global Research says it has figured out a way to put up to 500GB of data on a regular-sized DVD disc under laboratory conditions. GE says its breakthrough was achieved by writing 3-dimensional patterns that represent data onto a disc made of highly reflective material. The disc then acts as a mirror that makes it possible for a laser to pick up the entire piece of data. GE's process doesn't just put information onto the surface of the disc--as DVDs and CDs do--but etches the micro-holographic patterns below the surface of the disc as well.

  By Ian Paul | 28 April, 2009 07:59

  Tags: blu-ray, DVD, HD DVD, holographic optical disc storage

• If Blu-ray is dying, why are disc sales soaring?

  Will Blu-ray finally get some respect? The high-definition optical disc format has long been the whipping boy of media pundits, many of whom predict consumers will spurn Blu-ray and gravitate instead toward video-on-demand, online download, and movie streaming services. Blu-ray is old school, they say, a relic of the bygone era of physical media, despite the fact that it bested challenger HD DVD in 2008 after a two-year high-def format war.

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 17 April, 2009 07:45

  Tags: blu-ray, DVD, HD, HD DVD, netflix

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  K3b 2.0 coming to KDE4 mid-2009, Qt forked for port

  Popular CD and DVD burning application for KDE, K3b is gearing up for its first port to KDE4 with a pending 2.0 release, but part of the Qt toolkit had to be forked to make it possible.

  By Rodney Gedda | 24 March, 2009 12:05

  Tags: DVD, k3b, kde, kde4, mandriva, Qt, Qt Software