Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

OmniDrive is custom firmware for select Blu-Ray drives powered by the MediaTek MT1959 chipset that allows for numerous proprietary game disc formats to be read or ripped for backups and emulation. One ...

Our poll and community responses show a major shift toward digital libraries as Microsoft plans its next console.

GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360 owners looking to back up their physical game libraries for use with emulators – without crossing into piracy – can ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. New reports suggest Microsoft is working on a new disc-to-digital conversion program for its next-gen Project Helix console PC hybrid. It's believed that ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

Picture this: It’s the year 2002, and you just booted up your game console ready to wind down for the day. But something is wrong. The serene blue fog of the ...