But Sony says its mini-disk will appeal to consumers because it uses increasingly popular compact disk technology.

It is having trouble getting enough parts to build its drives and still doesn't have patents on the disk technology, leaving the door open to competitors.

With compact disk technology and increasingly powerful computer chips, video games are becoming far more sophisticated.

This year the Republican National Committee is boasting about its new secret weapon: optical disk technology.

Since it involves no moving parts, holographic data storage will be far more reliable than existing hard disk technologies.

He started another company, KnowledgeSet, which adapted optical disk technology for computer use.

Floppy disk technology has been around since the early 1970s (the 8-inch floppy was the first).

The two companies had been highly successful using a joint approach in developing the original compact disk technology.

The mini disk technology has sold reasonably well in Japan.

But with optical disk technology likely to be important in the future, the company still hopes to come out with such a product, he added.