I was almost joking when I suggested back in 2007 that movie studios might package motion pictures on flash media like SD cards or USB thumb drives... ... Read More

Reader Harry writes: My dvd drive in my computer says DVD+/-RW. ... Read More

Reader Arash writes: I'm looking into buying an external hard drive to back up pictures and old files. Do you have any brand you recommend? Or what should I look for? Flash vs. regular, name-brand vs. generic, etc. ... Read More

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Solid-state hard drives are rapidly moving from luxury splurge item that CEOs drop into their $3,500 laptops to gear suitable for the mainstream. ... Read More

Optical media is perpetually playing catch-up against its magnetic counterpart, with the highest-capacity optical discs typically offering about a tenth the storage space of the highest-capacity hard disk drives.And that gap has been getting even larger i Read More

At last the price of a Blu-ray disc is beginning to dip into viability. ... Read More

While it amounts to just 3.5 percent of the packaged video market, Blu-ray media is on a serious growth spike, with prepackaged Blu-ray movie sales up 250 percent since 2007. ... Read More

Last week, RealNetworks got all the press after it officially lost the first round of its long-running fight against the Hollywood movie studios and the association that governs and controls the DVD standard. ... Read More

The legal wrangling over RealNetworks' RealDVD application -- which let users make copies of their DVDs for playback on their PCs -- has Read More