I always thought it was pretty ridiculous to offer a digital service such as Netflix movie streaming, but shackling it to an antiquated piece of technology — the DVD. But that’s exactly what happened for the big 3 gaming consoles from the onset. The Wii is already making strides to rid itself of the Netflix disc requirement. And now thankfully, the PS3 is too! Starting this coming monday, PS3 owners can kick back, relax, and fire up Netflix on their PS3 via a...

Have 50GB+ of digital junk sitting around needing to be archived? Usually I’d say get a couple of external hard drives and be done with it. Cheap and easy. But I can see the need for high-capacity physical media as well. For the time being anyway, Blu-ray is pretty much your best bet at cramming the most 1′s and 0′s onto a portable and easily sharable disc. Putting said data on the disc is another thing entirely however. Since Blu-ray burners and such...

Digital distribution may be the way of the future, but that won’t stop disc creating companies such as Storex Technologies from touting their Hyper CD technology. Hyper CD’s claim to fame is the lofty 1 petabyte (1,000,000 GB) storage capacity. Indeed, 1 PB is a ton of data and could prove rather useful in certain situations. But then you have the whole issue of it being another proprietary physical format. So is Hyper CD worth holding our breath for? The way...

Blu-ray is the current physical format champ. At 25GB — 100GB if you take into account those quad-layer specimens we’ve heard about — Blu-ray technology is the go-to standard for people that have an almost insatiable hunger for physically transported data. Many of us nerds would handedly prefer a large flash drive, as over the course of the drives’ life, a considerable amount of money will be saved. Plus, it’s just so much easier to copy...

Were you finding it difficult to cram all that you wanted onto those tiny 50GB Blu-ray discs? I mean, 50GB isn’t sh*t anymore. The Blu-ray Disc Association apparently cares for you and I and has come forward with a new solution for those with an almost limitless amount of 1′s and 0′s to store. The added increase in storage size comes compliments of their new, freshly announced BDXL format which adds third and fourth layers to Blu-ray discs, pushing the...