1.0Gizmodo Australiahttps://gizmodo.com.auAndrew Liszewskihttps://gizmodo.com.au/author/andrewliszewski-usa/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="utQPvGu3co"><a href="https://gizmodo.com.au/2021/11/researchers-think-they-figured-out-how-to-squeeze-500tb-on-a-dvd-sized-disk/">Researchers Think They Figured Out How to Squeeze 500TB on a DVD-Sized Disk</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://gizmodo.com.au/2021/11/researchers-think-they-figured-out-how-to-squeeze-500tb-on-a-dvd-sized-disk/embed/#?secret=utQPvGu3co" width="600" height="338" title="“Researchers Think They Figured Out How to Squeeze 500TB on a DVD-Sized Disk” — Gizmodo Australia" data-secret="utQPvGu3co" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); </script> https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/02/50a37ca207c8ff14837629aeb5d0dfea.jpg?quality=75800449By switching from red lasers to blue lasers with a finer beam, the storage capacity of DVDs went from 4.7GB to 25GB to allow Blu-ray discs to hold movies encoded in HD resolutions and beyond. Last week, researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK revealed the next big breakthrough in disc storage capacities, […]