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InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs

Posted by timothy on from the hypthetical-chickens-taste-delicious dept.

turboflux writes "After rolling out prototype holographic drives last year, ExtremeTech reports that InPhase has announced they intend to ship drives to commercial customers in 2006. InPhase originally intended on shipping the 200GB version of their media this year. Another article on Engadget mentions that 1TB discs will be available in 2009."

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  1. HDTV / UHDV by valkoinen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could be the storage media for delivering HDTV content with extreme bitrates. Maybe not quite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition _VideoUHDV quality but hell of a lot better than even the largest blu-ray discs.

    Maybe digital movie theaters could use this to transfer and/or store the movies?

  2. Re:O... kay... by mccalli · · Score: 5, Insightful
    There are two kinds of people, either people with very low LAN connections and people who need a backup of their porn. Not much else use.

    Nonsense. I have immediate use for at least that much storage, for example. Lossless music storage, ripping of DVDs (I use an eyeHome for streaming to TV), offloaded Tivo recordings, full dumps of DV tapes from my camcorder for later editing - not a torrent or pr0n stash to be had.

    There's plenty of legitimate uses for large amounts of storage. Most revolve around AV it's true, but that AV needn't be swiped stuff from dodgy torrents or half of every posting ever to alt.binaries.redheads...

    Cheers,
    Ian

  3. Belgian chips... by spectrokid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    InPhase technology uses a camera chip designed by FillFactory, a Belgian chip maker.
    Now if you are British, you are probably thinking of this.

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