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- dhughes, on 04/20/2008, -9/+229Whenever I hear the term 'holographic' I always think of this phrase "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -1/+206Am I the only one still waiting for holographic TV to one day show up out of nowhere?
- Fiber, on 04/20/2008, -3/+184Dugg because in 20 years someone will have put this in a microwave and blender to see what happens.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -2/+153It looks like a 5.25" floppy and a DVD-R forgot to use safe data copying practices.
- BugBBQ, on 04/20/2008, -2/+129David Bowman disconnected HAL... Frank Poole was the other guy (killed outside the ship... to be revived in the year 3000).
- Ithaxa, on 04/20/2008, -12/+138When can i have sex with it?
- crazysamz, on 04/20/2008, -8/+129Let's hope this doesn't become another format war... Sony comes up with HoloBlu and Toshiba releases HoloHD... Here we go again...
- PunkyCrisps, on 04/20/2008, -5/+95FTA: "They’ve spec’d the optical media they use - a 5.25″ clear disk in a cartridge - at 50 years. For film and video companies whose data is literally irreplaceable a stable, compact and random access medium is a no-brainer."
Way to provide us with some original analysis, dude. - covertress, on 04/20/2008, -17/+94With a 50-year archive life, I predict major film studio vaults will be all over this.
- Enasni1212, on 04/20/2008, -4/+56Out of nowhere? Yes, yes you are. I had my bet on somewhere.
- bbardlbradd, on 04/20/2008, -1/+36Exactly what I thought when I read the description. How could they ***** that up? IT'S DAVE!!! HAL9000 said Dave like 1500 times in that film, most of the time after everyone else had already perished.
- Jones82, on 04/20/2008, -1/+35That's why we should just stick to one liners and memes in the comments
- BloKKem, on 04/20/2008, -4/+37And if he provided original analysis, diggers would have said, "Where the ***** was that at in the article, quit making ***** up"
You can never win. - Qumahlin, on 04/20/2008, -5/+38Hence why they said this isn't for consumers this is for archiving...It's not proof of concept at all..its a product that is on sale towards a specific market.
- djdole, on 04/20/2008, -3/+33Another hyped article.
FTA: "Since there’s no physical contact you can read the media millions of times with no degradation."
HDD, cdrom, dvd, blueray,... NONE of those require physical contact of the storage medium to read the data. That doesn't mean the physical media won't degrade.
Also fta: "photographic media has the longest proven lifespan - over a century - of any modern media."
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIA, not holographic media. That's like saying your radial all-weather car tires will last for melinia because the wheel has been around for even longer. - blahtastic, on 04/20/2008, -1/+29O RLY?
- chamberlanderic, on 04/20/2008, -1/+28dugg for the format : 5.25″ FLOOPY LIVES!
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -3/+30Did you read the article? It's not targeted at you and your porn collection. It's targeted at groups that need to archive large amounts of data for long periods of time. Typically they don't give a ***** how fast it reads or writes since they care about longevity of the media.
- uncool, on 04/20/2008, -2/+29Yes, it blends! Get over it!
- BloKKem, on 04/20/2008, -1/+27People will be putting microwaves in blenders 20 years from now I would hope.
- marx2k, on 04/20/2008, -6/+25That article did little to give specs on the drive/media. What's the read rate? What's the write rate? What sort of connector is being used? What type of lasers? Rewritable?
The media looks exactly like when CD-ROMs first came out and you had the CD inside the cartridge.
$180 for 300GB of write-once media would suck. - Rell812, on 04/20/2008, -1/+19says the Digg.com user interested in holographic storage.
- chudgoo, on 04/20/2008, -5/+22Am I the only one disappointed that it's not solid state?
Don't get me wrong, it's awesome tech but there is so much extra crap that enters the equation when you have moving parts.
(ask any MiniDisc enthusiast) - feliks2, on 04/20/2008, -2/+19whenever you can drop 18 grand on a prostitute
- kamikazecow, on 04/20/2008, -0/+17I didnt even need to click on that to know it was a rick roll, please go off into a corner and kill yourself
- jordn, on 04/20/2008, -0/+17YA, RLY!
- nxtwrld, on 04/20/2008, -0/+16Dave? What are you doing Dave?
- 4pple5auce, on 04/20/2008, -1/+17Microwaves will be putting people in blenders in the next 20 years.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+15...that's why he's asking?
- ndonohue, on 04/20/2008, -0/+14yeah but who do you think would be using it first? Probably your aforementioned polygon.
- aldableep3, on 04/20/2008, -1/+14come on isn't it getting old already?
- sailadayaway, on 04/20/2008, -0/+13You're right, why are you being dugg down?
- Blandyman, on 04/20/2008, -0/+13It's even sadder that he tries it twice in a row in the same article's comments.
Some people just think they're actually good at rick-rolling. - Jordan117, on 04/20/2008, -0/+13"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
- FuzzMop, on 04/20/2008, -0/+12NOWAI!
- MacEnvy, on 04/20/2008, -1/+13Yep, that's pretty much what happened in my first comment above. I guess I should learn to just repeat what the article says instead of providing my own opinion.
/bitter as a PA voter - jonohull, on 04/20/2008, -0/+12That kind of media starts to deteriorate in only a few years.
- mecharabbit, on 04/20/2008, -0/+12Help us, InPhase, you're our only hope...
- legoalert33, on 04/20/2008, -1/+13dude what if a classic single could hold 300gb?
- MiserJ, on 04/20/2008, -1/+12What's going on? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAKE??!!!!!
- PueSi, on 04/20/2008, -0/+11http://www.inphase-technologies.com/products/defau ...
20MB/s-120 MB/s transfer rates and uses SCSI. - JoWiGo, on 04/20/2008, -4/+15Are you saying you do not see this as a viable mass storage technique at some date? Now that it is being commercialized of course someone is going to try to make it cheaper for home use. Saying that this is for business and business only is like Western Union saying the telephone is just an electronic toy, a shortsighted statement.
- superkendall, on 04/20/2008, -0/+10Tape has a similar lifespan, with higher storage amounts. Or hard drives if you are willing to live with a slightly larger form factor.
At 18k a writer, you'd have to be damn sure the company would be around 50 years from now to provide you with a reader. - p0tent1al, on 04/20/2008, -0/+10and then we'll be complaining about prices for petabyte drives
- d1ckinabox, on 04/20/2008, -1/+11Microwaves will be putting people in blenders 20 years from now I would hope.
- SilverBlade2k, on 04/20/2008, -4/+14Oh ya, like Sony's versions do well in the market.
Betamax: Fail
Minidisc: Fail
Memory Stick: Fail
Atrac/Atrac 3: Fail
The only format of Sony's that managed to actually win is Blu-Ray. (even though it isn't totally a Sony property, they co-developed it.)
And does anybody *trust* Sony, the King of DRM, with anything technological these days? I don't. - apphappy, on 04/20/2008, -3/+13It is about time we had EMH's - maybe then the cost of medical care would go down...
- staticneuron, on 04/20/2008, -0/+10Logical Fallacy in what you are saying. The industry used beta which as you know failed to VHS. Just because the industry is doing one thing, it doesn't mean that the consumers will get it....or even want it.
- fluxion, on 04/20/2008, -0/+10Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you...
- shadowblade989, on 04/20/2008, -0/+9floopy, eh?
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