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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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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!".
Does that mean I have to buy Star Wars again?
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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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.
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.
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That, sir, is a far graver crime.
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.
When will the corps learn that customers don't want to be treated as mere cash cows?
When it stops being lucrative.
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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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.