news.ucf.edu — This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers of a single disc. By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte.
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mlynch3261Dec 9, 2006
Me Too :) Our football team may suck... but damnit we have optics down!
battybattybattDec 9, 2006
Nice
andrewwigginDec 9, 2006
"They have developed a new technology that will allow users to record and store massive amounts of data -- the museum’s entire collection or as many as 500 movies, for example -- onto a single disc or, perhaps, a small cube."Is the cube also backwards compatible?
4ndr01dDec 9, 2006
remember kids, only scratch it under hip hop supervision
zhulienDec 9, 2006
this is really badly written, on one hand they are saying they have figured out how to write more info onto a DVD, next they are saying it's *like* a DVD - which is it? a DVD or not?
rudybDec 9, 2006
horray! MORE DRM!
zaethaDec 9, 2006
Why are you digging xerox down?He's right about both things, I mean, "we have 2 layer DVD's so is a new format and can't be read on regular DVD players", duh?READ: <a class="user" href="http://www.dvdrw.com/why/doublelayer_faq.htm">http://www.dvdrw.com/why/doublelayer_faq.htm</a>And if fits the tray nicely, it doesn't matter if is just a little more thicker, JUST A LITTLE. Case aside all the DVD's and Cd's are not made the same, i bet even some DVD's on the market now could be as thicker as those new DVD's.Anyway, it's vaporware IMHO.
steve3050Dec 9, 2006
"Preparing disk for writing..."72 days 72 hours 72 mins 59 secs remaining
wwwdot1jesdotusDec 9, 2006
Alright! I'm ready for 10,000,080p resolution movies!
danielsimonDec 10, 2006
I agree with the above comments that stupid people should take heed, this is **not** a conventional DVD, but a disc about the same thickness/diameter as the current standard of DVDs. All that being said, f**k yeah.
kuallaDec 11, 2006
very good point here... DVD's are very slow at data transfer rates when it comes to a terabyte of storage... might as well just wait for holographic DVD writable discs to come out, max storage I believe is supposed to reach 1.6TB per disc...