What has been the hold-up? Holographic memory for
computers has been discussed and debated; waited for and desired, since the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ever since it was discovered that an interference pattern created by a laser beam and a reference laser beam, reflected off a target surface created an unusual image with unique properties that was dubbed a hologram.

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While the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps are at war, the Holographic DVD will emerge as the real next generation DVD.
The 200gb theoretical limit of the Blu-ray media strikes me as "too little too late".

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Seriously. 300gb+ you say? Insane. :)

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YES!

One step closer to holodeck technology, i can get laid every night then ;)

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The next step is Harddrives that will encode data in this manner... meaning our Harddrives will be able to hold Terabytes instead of Gigbytes. If the DVD's are going to be able to do this than I see Harddrives doing it as well.

I personally do have 100's of Gigabytes of CD/DVD's, I do lots of backups and everytime I leave the yard they are with me, copy after copy after copy... wow 2 CD's instead of hundreds!!!! yeah haw... I like it!

I will certainly be looking forward to purchasing one of these suckers.

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It should be known that these devices don't work like ordinary disk drives, the disk doesn't constantly spin. The disk seeks to a location and adjusts the lenses and mirrors to read that location. Adjusting the mirros positions and angles to keep focused on a location as they move around the location changing the angle exposes more of the data stored at that 3d location. What they failed to mention was the size of this device, it's not small. So don't expect to see this on a laptop anytime soon.

if i got one of these drives, i'd never encode another mp3 again :P

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Finally, my collection of nude photography will have a home! But 1.6Tb is just a start I hope.

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Maxell misses the mark, and then some.

http://www.nanotech-now....news.cgi?story_id=12682

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Someday our kids will be reading about these in old copies of PC Magazine and laughing at us. A measly 300GB per disc, lol.

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This is just stupid. 300gb discs?? What if you scratch one - you're stuffed. What a stupid idea. Yes I know it's in a case but name me just one single form of storage that came in case that was actually successful. (And a cassette tape is different because it was flexible - so don't get smart). People don't usually like things in a case. I guess the only exception would be a floppy disc maybe. And anyway even if it is in a case, things still get damaged in a case. But these huge storage devices are getting ridiculous now I feel.

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The sad thing is Windows Vista will still need two disc. :)

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well
technology goes faster and more advance everyday
i can't wait till this Holograhic DVD to release to the market
i can't wait for Holographic TV also :D

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I watched the video's on their website. My critisizim of this new product is done. The disks are in a case which helps prevent scratching, the equipment looks very capable and legit...all i can say is this..

Impressed.

But I do not think this will replace DVDs, Tape Drives yes, but not digital media. I still belive Blu-Ray is the next gen DVD. Look at this picture taken at the IFA Conference.

http://www.blu-ray.com/images/ifa2005/bda_06.jpg

those are all the companies contributing to Blu-ray as the next gen DVD

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You should really checkout the link to the InPhase website. They have a informative demo movie that answers a lot of the questions posted here.

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Maxell would do well to remember the first law of storage: No matter how much space there is, the next version of QUAKE will fill it ;-)

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a few Quick questions, may seem dumb, but at the same time very legit...

1. How much is this equipment going to cost to run these disks??

2. Is this reailty? or just some sadistic dream...

3. How long will it take the equipment to seek through 1.6TB of data to find 1 file in this day and age of computing??

Just a few questions for everyone to think about or bash me about lol

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I think this technology will be used in HDDs, the industry will never allow this abomination to be released...Plus, who the hell is gonna spend that kind of money on ONE CD? I hope it's scratch proof!!!

A 300GB CD is usless...It'll be hard to use an entire Dual Layer BD-Rom to back up Data, 50GB on one disc is enough.

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hmm, coool, but.

1. i dont trust myself storing all my data on 1 disc, 1 scratch = all data lost.
2. hd dvd & BR companies, will be against this,
3. if they do allow this, theyll be sure its sold expensive, with massive taxes.

IMO, they should put more development into hard-discs, to improve capacity, to lets say 2 TB, would fit most of my files then:)

also, memory cards need more development, i want my mobile to have a few hundred gigs for my mp3s.

so this whole thing with developing dvds is pointless, and bad for the enviroment! not like you can reuse those things, and hardly anyone uses RWs anyway, they get scratched too!

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That is freaking sweet.

One question:
Will I have to sell my car to afford them?

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If it's truly holographic then each bit of info would be wholly retrievable from every other little bit of info... which would mean unbeatable data access times... and lot's of other cool stuff... my brain is about to explode... somehow I doubt it's truly holographic in this way though.

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I'm still waiting for the day when data is stored in little holographic cubes like in Virtuosity. Looks like its getting there.

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How reliable?

And I want a HDD that can hold that much, not a DVD :P

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"A single disc could hold a dozen high-definition movies at better quality than the currently proposed next-generation DVD formats"

I doubt the movie industry is excited about that one.....

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This sounds exactly like the technology called, FMD or Flourescent Multilayer Disc. It was being done by a company called, Contellation 3D back in 1999 and after the tech bubble collapsed, the company folded. If you google on FMD, you will find bits and pieces on it. It was a translucent disc which could hold over 1TB of data. Was faster than any HD in both read and writing..

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All I can say is "WOW", now where can I get one[reasonably priced, that is]. You could Image 3 chock full 80gb hdd's + 1 60gb hdd on one disk[300mb's] 8-0 8-)

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I hope this one actually comes out because I've been hearing about holographic storage for a very long time. Here's one from last year:
http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm

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HOLY COW!! That's all I can say... very impressive.

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Wow. What was that about HD-DVD being the last disc format again, Bill?

The real questions come down to price and power consumption--"This technique would ultimately allow a single disc to hold up to 1.6 terabytes of data read at 160 megabits per second -- 340 times the capacity and 20 times the data rate of traditional DVDs, and more than twice the data rate of Blu-ray and HD DVD with more than fifteen times the space."

That can't be cheap (lol, maybe cheaper than Blu-Ray :), and it would almost definately require more power. It would seem to temporarily solve the whole copy protection vs. usability concerns though; it is already holographic.

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wow ..excellent nowadays virtual storage is a thing of the past, hopefully with all this technology on "DVD's " will give us the convenience to store every important file in one single disk..this is really convenient :P

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