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6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance

Posted by timothy on from the say-that-3879-times-quickly dept.

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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  1. Re:Can you say worthless? by PMJ2kx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Back in 1998, when IBM unvailed their 18GB hard drive, I asked the same thing. Now, 120GB is standard hard disk size. So, who knows...you might actually find a use for 1TB.

  2. Can't wait for the Digital Restrictions Managment by Sanity · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No doubt their top priority will be figuring out all the ways to prevent their customers from from using these disks in the way they want to use them. "Can't pause that there" "Can't watch that on that device" "No fast-forwarding through that" "Can't watch this in that country" ...

    Remember when technology used to be about enabling people, rather than disabling them?

  3. Re:Can you say worthless? by Staplerh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh, bah. I'm sure when the CD-ROM came out, people liked to roll their eyes at people filling up 540 MB of storage. Even TFA answers your argument, and does a damn good job of it IMHO:

    If history is an indication, consumers will fill the disc up. High-definition broadcasting and gaming are also expected to add a heavy burden to existing home storage systems because of the size of the files. Two hours of HD programming takes up about 15GB to 25GB.

    There you go, if we do a wholesale switch over to HD TV, finally a terabyte of storage doesn't seem that outlandish does it?

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  4. Re:Can you say worthless? by macklin01 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

    Anybody who does scientific work, for instance.

    It's not hard to generate a few GB of data in a fluid mechanics simulation. People doing rendering (e.g., Pixar) also run into this ... -- Paul

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  5. Attention span of humans 50 mins, 40 mins, 30.. by NigelJohnstone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it funny, the CD was approximately the same as a record with 40-70 minutes of music, the attention span of a human in the 1980s. Past that and nobody listened to the record the whole way through.

    Now we can save 200 hours of video but have 5 minute attemtion spans because of all the distractions, TV etc..

    Ironic isn't it?

    I wonder what they plan to record on that disc.

  6. Re:Is there DRM built-in? by Dolda2000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like how this is the comment that is most likely to run through a MPAA employee's mind at the moment of reading this article, and at the same time is rated Funny on slashdot. :)

  7. Re:Can you say worthless? by (negative+video) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I could use a 1TB disk where I could random access it for read and writes... but just write once?
    With appropriate software, write once can give you a versioning file system with a tamper-proof history.

    Also: think video. 6000x4500 pixels at 30 fps, using 2:1 lossless compression, is 1215 MB/sec. This technology would be perfect for digital movie production.