You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Warner Brothers — a major proponent of the original DVD format — plans to announce at the CES ...

Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

Licensing to Begin for BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE Las Vegas– January 5, 2006 — The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that the format specification is complete and that licensing is ready to begin ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

Aw, shucks: the shooting has jut barely begun on the blustery format war for dominance of the next-generation DVD landscape, with Blu-ray still struggling to get out of the gates and HD DVD out ...

Every now and then tech companies will launch a product that'll make you think, "Wait, why weren't we doing this all along?" Universal Studio's new "Flipper" disc is one of those: a two-in-one disc ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Blu-ray Disc Association has released its final specifications for BDXL, the new multilayer ...

Victor Company of Japan Ltd., better known as JVC, has joined the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), putting its weight behind the Blu-ray Disc high-definition optical-disc format. “JVC's decision to ...