Tag: DISC

If you're old enough to remember floppy disks, you're old enough to remember the days of installing programs 1.4 megabytes at a time. A blank CD-R can store something like 500 times that amount of information, and a DVD-R many times more than that, so even we nostalgic old-timers aren't quite willing to go back to the ways of exchanging files by floppy. But, if you're dying for a taste of the ...

Amazon.com is sweetening the pot for anyone who's been thinking about purchasing a high-def disc player. Unfortunately, it hasn't made the decision over which format to go with any easier. As we all know, Sony's Blu-ray format is locked in a knock-down drag- out war with Toshiba's competing HD DVD format, with every week that passes bringing news of one format gaining a lead on the other. In an ...