A team from Swinburne University's Center for Micro-Photonics has developed a technique that can increase a DVD's storage capacity from that standard 4.7GB up to 1PB.

Using nanotechnology, researchers have developed a technique to increase the data storage capacity of a DVD from a measly 4.7GB to 1000TB. (Credit: Nature Communications) ...

Nanoscale light tricks promise huge DVD storage. By Will Knight. 26 May 2005 ... This is close to a terabyte and well beyond the capacity of most modern computer hard drives.