87GB On DVD-Sized Media

BostonMACOSX points to this report in the Detroit News that says, in part, "Boston College researchers have found a way to store about 19 times more data on a disk than a common DVD can hold, using optical media made with common products, the December issue of Nature Materials reports." And it's a mix of high and low tech: the disk is formed of "an epoxy glue sold at hardware stores and a glass-like substance," but written with a currently expensive laser.

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So...If I understand this....

[GeneralEmergency]

...it means that when all the LOTR movies are done, we can REALLY piss off Jack Valenti by ripping them on to just one disk?

Must go buy more popcorn now.

Common [ ] products

[Matey-O]

My brain inserted 'household' between Common and products. I got real excited when I thought something like Lemon Plegde would allow me to store more data on a DVD...

...kinda like taking a hole punch to a SSDD 5 1/4 floppy.

(ya see, when _I_ was your age, floppy disks were actually bigger, and floppy, not 3.5" on a side and 'stiff')

Re:Common [ ] products

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

I got real excited when I thought something like Lemon Plegde would allow me to store more data on a DVD...

Dude, be careful! You'll start a new rumour for those silly audiophiles - first it was cd greening, next it will DVD pledging!

(No offense to the not-so-silly audiophiles - you know who I'm talking about :)

Word of Caution:

[Quaoar]

Take it from me...pouring epoxy glue on a DVD does not increase the storage capacity.

Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS?

[Blimey85]

"My fellow Americans...

You will be happy to know that today,
I wrote into law legislation that will ban the RIAA forever.

The bombing will start in 5 minutes." - Former President Ronal Reagan
speaking on behalf of the US Air Force in response to the RIAA saying no.

Re:Too bad about the expensive laser

[sharkey]

"...equal to 87,000 paperback books."

You also have to wonder what is being left out of the transcription of, say "War and Peace", to make it use the same amount of disk-space as "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing".

Re:Too bad about the expensive laser

[micromoog]

When did "paperback books" replace "Libraries of Congress"? Is this part of the U.S. metric system changeover?

Re:What happened to our 100 gig CDROMS?

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

Charlie: Excuse me, Lieutenant. Is there something wrong?
Maverick: Yes ma'am, the data on the DVD reader is inaccurate.
Charlie: How's that, Lieutenant?
Maverick: Well, I just happened to see a DVD containing...
Goose: We!
Maverick: Uh, sorry Goose. WE happened to see a DVD containing 89 megabytes.
Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: Uh, that's classified.
Charlie: It's what?
Maverick: It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

(All credit to IMDB and none to me - I didn't even try to make it funnier. I'd say I am a lazy karma whoring bastard, but I think i'm capped :)

Re:Too bad about the expensive laser

[pi radians]

On another topic, I hate shit like:

"...equal to 87,000 paperback books."

My mother in law knows what a gigabyte is. I think it's safe to stop with the point-of-reference crap.

Actually, the most understood way would be to say "Can hold 174,000 songs that you haven't paid for."

Re:Screw Media

[Hektor_Troy]

I need a 10t store at "Yahoo" (pick your flavor) for $5 amonth with a data access rate in the 5ms range accessable from any spot on earth

Let's see. Light travels at roughly 300,000 km/second. In .005 seconds it can travel 1,500 km.

The circumfrence of the earth is roughly 40,000 km, so the farthest you can be from a given spot is 20,000 km.

Add to that, that you also need to send the request, you somehow need to think up a transport medium, that can travel at 20,000 km / 0.0025 seconds == 8,000,000 km/second.

We'll get in tuch with you, when we manage to send data at 26 and 2/3rds the speed of light at a distance of 20,000 km.