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 ...

You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've got a disk that needs formatted before it gets returned to Dell. It is a 15k SAS disk. The only thing I have that can talk to a disk like that is the SAN. Luckily I have some free slots on the ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) just announced the finalization and release of the specifications for BDXL™, the new multi-layer recordable Blu-ray Disc™ format with up to 128GB of capacity. With ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association has announced a new Blu-ray disc format that will more than double the storage of current Blu-ray discs, called BDXL. The new BDXL format adds third and fourth layers to ...