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A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD?
Roland Piquepaille writes "This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers of a single disc. The system uses lasers to compact large amounts of information onto a DVD and the process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte. Read more for additional references and a diagram showing how this two-photon 3D optical system reads data."
Glad I didn't buy blue-ray or HD-DVD, I knew they were both scams!
Don't forget to factor in the expense of more hard disk needed to rip and burn 'em.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
Soon someone will announce that by using blue laser they get blu-Terabit-DVD and another will announce blu+terabit-DVD and one more blu-terabit+DVD and finally a blu+terabit+DVD. By the this time users would have been fed up and gone on a nice fishing trip in the Owen's river in California.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
something big enough to hold my pr0n collection!
Now we can lose even MORE data as the discs decay!
using it on regular dvds might be like the days of hole-punching 720k floppies.
Don't be stupid. DVDs already have the hole punched in them...
This guy's the limit!
In best Dr. Evil voice: "One million dollars!" *muhahahahaha*
FRA: STFU GTFO
Getting a terabyte of data onto a DVD is easy. You simply render the bits using little colored shapes instead of traditional laser-beam pits and valleys.