All BluRay player, devices, and drives contain a key that unlocks the encryption and DRM present on BluRay discs. Since 2007, the consortium responsible for this DRM scheme has been pushing ...

Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for all Tape remains the only true viable long-term solution ...

Drive type Internal 16X Blu-ray Disc Rewriter, M-DISC Support. Access time : BD-ROM is 180 ms typ Interface: SATA (SATA 1.1a), Buffer Memory: 4 MB Operating System - Windows XP, Windows Vista ...

There’s a whole lot of interesting mechanics, optics, and electronics inside a Blu-ray drive, and [scanlime] a.k.a. [Micah Scott] thinks those bits can be reused for some interesting project.

Sony has announced that it will cease production of Blu-ray discs next month. In a statement shared by the company, it ...

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Sony recently announced plans to end Blu-ray media production in February, delivering yet another heavy blow to the future of ...

Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical drives to use them. As such, Sony doesn't see the need to keep pumping out ...

In a way, CD-ROM and Blu-Ray drives already function like microscopes, using lasers to read the microscopic pits and lands on the surface of a CD or DVD. In the case of a Blu-Ray drive, an ultra ...

Stock of Sony's detachable 4K Blu-ray drive accessory is drying up ahead of the PS5 Pro's launch in Novemeber. Take a nail out of that coffin; 4K Blu-ray is fighting back against streaming according ...