As we enter a new decade, it’s time to look beyond the physical storage media of the past and embrace newer, more advanced data storage technologies. While cloud storage and flash memory certainly have a strong foothold as alternatives to traditional forms of fixed storage, optical media such as CD’s, DVD’s, and – more recently [...]
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Tags: BDR-206MBK, BDXL, Blu-ray, Pioneer, storage 
No Comments »Blu-ray discs exceeding 100GB of capacity should be available shortly, now that the Blu-ray Disc Association has finalized and released its BDXL specification. In an announcement today, the association said the following: “…manufacturers can now obtain licensing information and license applications needed to begin production of the high capacity write-once and rewritable discs and hardware [...]
Posted in Optical Storage, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: BDXL, Blu-ray, blu-ray disc association 1 Comment »Got a burgeoning Blu-ray collection but no way to backup all those discs? Since Blu-ray burners and media are still relatively expensive, direct-copy methods don’t make a lot of financial sense. Fortunately there’s the free x264 software library which now can compile Blu-ray compatible h.264 encoded content to subsequently be recorded on standard single and [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Home Theater, Optical Storage, PCs and Laptops, Storage, TV and Video Tags: Blu-ray, dvd, h.264, x264 No Comments »
