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Quarter-sized CD's?

Posted by michael on from the little-disc-big-restrictions dept.

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Denver Post is running an interesting story about Dataplay, Inc. This Boulder, Colorado based company aims to supplant the 20-year-old CD with a quarter-sized (1.5" x 1.25") optical disc that can hold 500 Mb of data. Players and media (already supported by 4 major record labels) are scheduled to launched 'the latter part of first quarter 2002'." They're cute, but considering that Sony's minidiscs never took off and this format is heavily restricted, my guess is that this will fail.

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  1. Gotta love the picture caption by morcheeba · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steve Volk founded DataPlay in November 1998 out of his frustration with the multiple storage formats used in consumer electronics.

    So his solution? Invent another storage format!

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  2. Where'd I put that again by nachoman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make them smaller so they are easier to lose.

    And somehow I just can't justify paying 20$ for something that is the size of a quarter.

    1. Re:Where'd I put that again by OmegaDan · · Score: 4, Funny

      hmm ... next time my boss asks for something on a cd cuz he's too stupid to burn one himself; I *really can* shove it up his ass.

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  3. Damn alien technology by rsteele19 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this means I'm gonna have to buy the White Album again...

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  4. God bless DataPlay! by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was just reading the "Big Breakthrough" infographic, and this thing sure looks impressive. At long last, thanks to modern technology, I can finally have inexpensive, universal, portable optical media that stores 500 MB of any kind of data I want and can be written 10 times faster than a 1X CD burner!