When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a spinning disc drive on a store shelf? Outside of a pawn shop, I don’t think I’ve seen one in almost 10 years. But Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu just ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

Betty Hill peered through the car’s windshield at a strange, beaming light in the sky. It was behaving unusually—rather than falling down, as a shooting star might, it instead drifted upward. Betty’s ...

If you appreciate the value, importance and (for the most part) reliability of physical media, it’s likely you have some DVDs in your collection. Unlike streaming, where titles of your favorite films, ...

There is no better way to protect the art you love and ensure it is always available for enjoyment than physical media. We know some people enjoy keeping tabs on the licensing agreements, expiration ...

Like with much of physical media, the onslaught against optical media is ongoing. In the latest hit against physical media fans, LG has discontinued its remaining Blu-ray players. However, this ...

We explain how you can copy a DVD to your Mac for watching on iPad or Apple TV, even if it won’t play! When clearing out the garage recently we stumbled upon an old DVD. Since we no longer have a DVD ...

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack.

With the rise of streaming services, Blu-Ray and DVD purchases have fallen off a cliff, with purchases for both primarily being done by collectors or hard-core fans of that specific media. However, ...

Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD or Blu-Ray disc — but can hold a whopping 1.6 ...