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- scottbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think the more important question to ask is how stable is this medium for storing data? I don't want to find out that I just lost a multitude of sensitive data just because the disc dies in a year (ahem, CD-ROMs...)
- toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Something about storing 33Gigs on a CD sized disc just doesn't seem right to me. I've lost CDs before...
- disord3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think this will be anything more than ROM for quite a while. The equipment required to create holograms won't be scaled down to fit inside a 5.25 bay for quite some time.
- Urbantank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wOOt! ... is this supposed to be new?
- chrisdelta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vaporware? It was spun off from Bell Labs. I doubt it's vaporwar. As for media longevity, the video says it'll last 50 years. Then again, CD-Rs are supposed to last 100 yrs..
- spadin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The video says the disk can store 400 High-Res images, but it goes on to say that it can also hold 15 hours of HD Video or 88 hours of normal video. That doesn't make sense to me.
- heatpackrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hype. vaporware. call it whatever, but its not legit till someone has a review out about it.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Are these the people that are making the HVD discs?
- WolfwoodX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Put it in a HD Camcorder!
- Yoda716, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about all of that 2048p content we will have some day?
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice, but what's the data transfer rate?
- NailToTheX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whatz with the transfer rates... at 27 megs per second, to fill 300,000 megs - it would take about 3 hours... oh back to the old days of x1 slow burns. The 1.6TB would take a mere 16 hours.
They gotta ramp that speed up to make it reasonable.
X - Cruzz563, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This HVD had 1TB a year ago :)
http://www.engadget.com/entry/9772446245622191/
I dunno if it's still in development though. - chosenone-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guys, you don't understand the nature of holograms (real ones, not the ones found with your cereal to promote X and Y). Holograms can be broken into an infinite amount of pieces while still retaining all the data on each piece, although it gets fuzzier as the pieces get smaller. I definately hope they're developing real holograms :)
The discs are cheap, the devices aren't.
And Bill never said that, stop the myths already. Did you know that we DON'T use only 10% of our brain? - bobetr, on 11/27/2008, -0/+0the largest prblem i see about this is cost. you have to buy the disc and you probably also need to take special care with the coating on them, its just a guess. then you also need a drive that can write to it. i dont see it taking off unless the price is right.
CMON DOWN! - eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The reason that the drives are so expensive is that they have a boatload of complicated optics in them
- Dre_the_Geek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The way that these holographic disks are supposed to work is that it has multiple write layers, each at a different light wavelength. Each light wavelength can be read through the others so that you can stack more than 1 or 2 layers unlike HD DVD (max 3 layers) or Blu-ray (Max 2 layers) on top of each other without having to use either higher powered lasers or larger pit / groove sections. It is a cool idea but like was said above, this has been around for years and nothing so far.
- spy.c, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool digg.according to the Guinness book of world records 2002,some guy named Ted Williams (UK) invented a new type of double-sided solid -state memory that can hold as much as 1742 gigabytes/in2(270 gigabytes/cm2)of random access memory.this means that it could hold 10.8 terabytes on one chip the size of a credit card. hope to see that out soon.
- bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, we've been told for years this was right around the corner, but eventually, this'll hit, and we'll all be happy.
Blu-Ray doesn't hold a candle to this technology. We need holographic storage...yesterday. - 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I want a TB of RAM. Screw having a 300GB disc. I don't need that much porn.
- test5477, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Lose the exclamation point, its not that big of find.
- dude3609, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lol.. i don't see any reason for this except if you'd wanna load it up with warez. :P But it's still cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0InPhase has been promising this stuff for years... Personally I need optical media NOW that will store 100 GB or more per disc. I also need the media to be dirt cheap ($1-2) and the drive to be under $500.
- Heathen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I was pretty sure that 640kb quote was made up or wrongly attributed to Bill. He's denied saying it anyway (who wouldn't) but I'm not old enough to have been paying attention to him when he would've said it.
- Permanent4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Holographic storage has been just two or three years away from product stage since 1996. Nothing to see here. Move on.
- conman23456, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yes, but it has not been avalible to the consumer.
- toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0damnit...33? where did that come from?
- BiggPa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0will it be smashed by the blue-ray lobby though?
- NyQuil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I read the title and said to myself "That is a lot of porn..."
- Briankb68, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0You can never have enough memory. We always find ways to use it.
Bill Gates quote "640KB ought to be enough for anyone"
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