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Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc
qorkfiend writes "Optware Corp. has announced successful playback of digital movies on a new holographic recording disc with a reflective layer. Known as the Collinear Holographic Data Storage System, the disc has a one terabyte storage capacity and one gigabyte transfer speed. The disc size is 12cm, comparable to that of a DVD and a CD."
That's a big file format, and it will take a while to download.
First I will protect the internet from attack including This Land is My Land. And was Mark CueBall right about media size halting piracy? But, didn't we just read that size doesn't matter.
One gigabyte transfer speed?
Per second? Hour? Day?
My netflix movies come overnight. If I get 4, that works out to almost a gig per hour...
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Now I can carry Emacs around with me....uncompressed!
A 1 gigabyte transfer speed! That is so fast! I could store this new disk in my new 12-minute wide closet.
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I love the technology, but you got to make the media more durable. I hate today's DVDs/CDs that scratch from the slightest mishandling. Those of use with kids (not intended for parents with 30+yrs still living with them, I mean young childen) know the horror I seeing your 2 yr old running around with you prized XXX DVD screaming "I want watch Blues Clues, plez)
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Sony has announced a new Holographic+ format that is identical in every way except that it is totally incompatible, requiring onerous license fees.
Sony executives reached for comment would only say "Have you seen my new house? It's made of MONEY!".
No, its one gigabyte per library of congress
If you blog it...
Does that mean I have to buy Star Wars again?
Task one - make a product that works. Great!
Task two - get marketing in there and come up with a better acromyn, because CHUD's is already taken.
Now in Super High Definition Video:
"... help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope..."
No, its one gigabyte per library of congress
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How... modern. In MY day we would have said "1 gigabyte per olympic size swimming pool". And we LIKED it that way!
Bah, kids these days.
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Back in the '90s, weren't we meant to be using little holographic cubes by the year 2000? Funny how those never showed up, eh?
You mean you never got yours? That'll teach you to not leave a forwarding address...
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NBC - The complete 1st season
LOTR - Super extendend limited edition trilogy (1 disc set)
Johnny Carson - The complete tonight show with audio commentary
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And all of my 100's of DVD's being re-released in Super High Definition uncompressed format.
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12 cm is damn near, if not exactly, the size of a DVD or CD. Gotta love it when you make a fool out of yourself, right?
That'll sure come in handy as soon as I set up my home IMAX theatre.
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What movie did they play back, hmmm? How did that movie get transferred to the holographic disc? Did they rip it from a DVD? Did they pay all of the required fees for showing it to a room full of people? I see lawsuits forthcoming.
Underling: OK, I, ah ah ahhhhhh chooo!
Historian: Oh, dear. What did we lose?
Underling: Ummm... the 15th century.
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In related news, the MPAA just crapped its pants
Ah leave him alone, he probably works on Mars landers and can't help it.
Or thinks that CDs were invented in America. Isn't everything?
KFG
Yeah, I mean really. I got mine used off ebay already. They didn't do a good job of cleaning it before offering it for sale though. I loaded it up and autoplay ran some movie of some chick with furry ear muffs saying "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
Weird.
KFG
That's because the Decepticons took them all back to cybertron. Duh!
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You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
Well, you could store 1TB of porn.
When will the corps learn that customers don't want to be treated as mere cash cows?
When it stops being lucrative.
Are you crazy? No way! First:
Then:
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If I had an account and mod points, I'd mod your post as -1 Durable
Damn, I thought CD's were 12 seconds wide.
Duh, they're either 74 or 80 minutes long...sheesh!
Unless they put these in large 3.5" floppy disk-like enclosures.
That's a great idea. They could even make them reusable so that you only keep your most used discs in the enclosures. Enclosure isn't a very marketable name though, I think 'caddy' would be a better name.
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Sorry bub, us engineers are taking over. And rounding off? Its what we DO. Next time, I'll use "~="
Sound good?
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I could back up my entire porn collection on six or seven of these!
Anyone with small children can attest to the fact that they are the quintessential "destructive force." Heck, my children are good kids but that doesn't mean that I leave them alone for any period of time whatsoever with anything valuable.
They could be, but it depends on how far away they are.
Who could possibly understand better than Disney that children are destructive forces??
YOU try walking around the park dressed as Goofey and getting punched in the nads every 3.5 minutes and then come back and tell me how sweet and innocent kids are.
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That's nothing: I calculated that a freight train, going 100 Km/hour, having boxcars stuffed with 200G harddrives, delivers about 1400 TB/sec. Typical ping time: around 2 weeks.
"gigabyte transfer speed"?!?! Ok then, my car has a 155 mile top speed. My printer prints 15 pages black and white, 12 pages color. My resting heart rate is about 80 beats. My cars gas economy is 18 miles. There, all done.
Well, at least you didn't get one that had some wierd ring burned into the image - hang on, I have to get the phone...