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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!
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.