Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for all Tape remains the only true viable long-term solution but drives are far too expensive It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony ...

It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced it is ending Blu-ray media production, along with MiniDiscs, MiniDiscs data and miniDV tape, just months after it got rid of its 5.5TB ...

Optical support: Every backup program supports hard drives, but as obsolete as they may seem, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are great archive media. If you’re worried about optical media’s ...

Remember Blu-ray discs? The once-popular high-definition (HD) compact discs, designed to replace DVDs, are finally ending ...

Anything older than HDMI 1.4 is now obsolete, and only present on really old gear ... Type-A HDMI port is the one you’ll see on the back of your TV and things like Blu-ray players and game consoles.

Just like the floppy disks, now DVDs, CDs, and Blu-ray discs are becoming obsolete. Several newer Laptops, PCs, and other media devices do not come built-in with an optical disc drive. Even Microsoft ...

While largely obsolete now, there are a few places where these machines are still in use. One is in places where high reliability or ruggedness is needed, such as instrumentation for airplanes or ...