Since the turn of the century, vinyl, thought by most to be a dead audio format, has experienced an amazing resurgence. Tens of millions of copies have been sold on both sides of the Atlantic, bucking the trend of substituting physical and tangible objects for digital formats. As we did with the venerable tape cassette a few weeks ago, we left our minds wondering and pondering what a 2020 vinyl update would look like. As it turns out, there was indeed an update to the LP, the 12-inch version of the vinyl backing, but it was used for video, not for audio. Laserdisc was all the rage in Southeast Asia in the 1980s and 1990s, where the ability to access any track on a disc in seconds made it a favorite in karaoke bars thousands before. the internet age. The technology used in Laserdisc has been improved over two decades to give birth to first DVD and then Blu-ray. The official successor to the Laserdisc, the archive disc, was first announced in 2013. However, it is primarily used, as the name suggests, for data archiving purposes (popular in cloud storage such as cold storage). A single disc can hold 300GB, triple-layer Blu-ray discs up to 200GB. Data is recorded on both sides for both media, and the Archival Disc roadmap features 500GB and 1TB models in the near future. They are stored in cases (called magazines) to mitigate the risk of physical damage (scratches, etc.), similar to floppy disks (or ZIP/Syquest).