6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance

gardolas writes "'Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics are two of six companies, who have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which they say can be used to put 1TB of data onto just one disc. The consortium say that a HVD disc could hold about 200 standard DVD's, and transfer data at speeds 40 times that of DVD, about 1GB per second.' HVD is being seen as a possible successor to Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies."

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1TB...that's a lot of...

[ambelamba]

pr0n, of course. :D

Can you say worthless?

[darklingchild]

Who on earth needs a terabyte of storage? And more importantly, Why would we want it on a non-hard disk. The massive storage would be so much better on a hard disk. I can't imagine wanting to carry a terabyte with me on a disk!

Re:Can you say worthless?

[earthforce_1]

Yes, but I assume you do want backups for your terabyte hard drive? And you are going to want to move large, but less frequently used files (HD home movies anybody?) off the drive.

On the other hand, watching somebody who just lost 1TB of data change colours like a chameleon would be interesting to watch.

Re:Can you say worthless?

[evilmousse]

-obviousquote-
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
-/obviousquote-

Re:Can you say worthless?

[Jack William Bell]

18GB on a 5.5 drive? Now that was livin'! Hell boy! I remember when hard drives were 5GB and came in disk packs the size of a hatbox. Floppies were 8 inches on a side and held 170KB; enough for the OS, your software and all your data files! And we considered ourselves lucky we didn't have to deal with boxes of punchcards anymore. Why, back then. . . . ZZZZZZ . . .

Re:Can you say worthless?

[CastrTroy]

Is it just me, or are there a large percentage of slashdot readers who do lots of fluid dynamic simultions on a daily basis?

Is there DRM built-in?

[Anonymous Coward]

I fear this new advance in storage will just enable greater and greater copyright infringement and rob hard working content producers of their deserved income.

I hope they have technology built in to thwart these evildoing pirates.

Holograph?

[drivinghighway61]

Help us Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're our only hope...

200 dvds ?

[EpsCylonB]

The consortium say that a HVD disc could hold about 200 standard DVD's,

That means nothing to me, can someone covert that into a more practical measurement like Libraries Of Congress (LoC) ?.

You Forget Apple iHDTV 3D Holo-Garage Band

[CheeseburgerBlue]

To effectively use Apple iHDTV 3D Holo-Garage Band home studio with patented QuickTimeHolo technology, we recommend using a G14 computer with a one button psychic-cursor and at least fifty quadrillion golybits of RAM.

Re:You Forget Apple iHDTV 3D Holo-Garage Band

[Alsee]

fifty quadrillion golybits of RAM

Groan. I HATE people who write things like "thousands of kilo" or "millions of kilo" instead of mega and giga. Jeez! Just use the right damn prefix!

Instead of writing something stupid like quadrillion golybits just convert it to ohmygolybits in the first place!

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Souvenirs

[FiReaNGeL]

I remember, back when I bought my first computer, I had the choice between a 25 and 50 megs Harddrive. The sales rep said :

"Choose the 25 megs one, NO ONE will EVER need this much storage!"

Guess what : Needs increase with time and technology. I'm sure if this tech get released after Blueray that we will have a way to fill up 1 TB without thinking too much about it.

Now what we REALLY need is a PERMANENT way of storing data.

Re:Souvenirs

[ScrewMaster]

Well, regular Compact Discs are redundant enough to withstand a couple millimeter scratch, supposedly. We'll just have to put enough redundancy and error-detection and correction into it so that we'll have a reasonable media life. That, and make the laser pits be large enough to survive for a decent time. Most likely you wouldn't want to use a planetary body with an atmosphere and ecosystem, though. Something completely airless and relatively static would be a better choice. Still, it seems to me that, in the long term, small-scale such as asteroidal impacts, vulcanism and erosion may prove to be less of a problem than continental drift.

That might make the basis of an interesting sci-fi story, whereupon a barren planet with no atmosphere is discovered. This planet would have bizarre patterns of what appear to be meteor impacts all over its surface. The long-dead civilization that built the world-memory would have written the data by accelerating chunks of rock at the surface, rather than using a laser or particle beam. This would have been done in an attempt to mask their real purpose by making them appear to have been meteoritic in origin. Eventually, a brilliant yet eccentric scientist working on his own time would accidentally discover that the "impact craters" are actually data bits, and the decoding of them would reveal some incredible galaxy-wide event that is about to occur.

If anyone decides to write this I want to be mentioned in the foreword, and I want 10% of any royalties.

Good Lord

[ArmenTanzarian]

If they made the LOTR chronicles 1TB long, I think I'd have to get another job just to be bored enough to watch them.

Now that's an error message!

[greypilgrim]

"A tiny speck of dust has crossed the beam and 4gb of data have been lost." The bigger they get, they harder they fall.

Re:A timeline is emerging?

[Anonymous Coward]

"If you build it, they will come."

Especially if you fill it with 1TB of pr0n

While higher and higher capacities are exciting...

[sirReal.83.]

You just know the PHBs will still use an entire disc to walk a 37KB spreadsheet thirty feet down the hall ;)

Yeh, blu-ray..

[adeyadey]

I was getting sick of that old redundant legacy blu-ray format, its about time we replaced it..

Re:I call bullshit!

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, it's bs because no Slashdot geek would ever think about _not_ buying the biggest, latest doodad available for his computer, even if it's as useless as a casemod.

Re:Can you say worthless? (or can you say stupid)

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you ever tried to deliver 15TB to a customer?

Yes. I filled my station wagon with quarter-inch tapes and drove them there.

All along the way I could see other drivers looking at me and underestimating my bandwidth.

So 60 seconds is enough!

[NigelJohnstone]

" 60 secomds of high resolution holographic porn!"

So from foreplay to cumshot, 60 seconds *IS* enough!

I'll tell my wife next time she complains!... Yes darling, an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot said its OK.

hm..

[newr00tic]

..you could ALMOST fit Gentoo's compile logs on ONE of those..