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New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by Varish on 08-27-2004 at 12:45 PM
Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware's revolutionary Collinear Holography. This is a major milestone for commercializing holographic data storage system.
The recorded movies were played back in a series of meetings from July eight through 12 with Optware's six existing investors as well as eight enterprises both domestic and overseas including leading manufacturers of electronic and electric products for consumer, business and industrial use. Company names are not disclosed.
http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm
Source : Neowin.net
Any one know the price?
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by M73A on 08-27-2004 at 10:34 PM
im not to smart...wats a terabyte? 10 gigs? or sumat
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by Chrono on 08-27-2004 at 11:10 PM
1000 gigabytes
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by jren207 on 08-27-2004 at 11:10 PM
it's the gmail of discs lol 
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by Ezra on 08-27-2004 at 11:26 PM
This is gonna kick the crap out of blu-ray
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by spokes on 08-28-2004 at 07:29 AM
cant wait for the writers! but they will b EXPENSIVE!
1000GB is ALOT!, i could get all the stuff i need on in like 20GB
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by user27089 on 08-28-2004 at 09:01 AM
I doubt that they will be sold to the general public for a while, they never are after such a discovery. When they do come out, people may sell them full of warez for quite a bit of money 
, then again thats always been a problem hasn't it. I think this is cool, but I doubt they will be selling for a small price when the come out, probably much more.
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by Huuf on 08-28-2004 at 10:24 AM
blah have to correct it's 1024 gb
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by tomfletcherman on 08-28-2004 at 05:26 PM
MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *drools* there's not even many hard disks out with this type of storage space. Certainly not 'normal' size hard drives offering this.
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by PenguinBoy on 08-29-2004 at 02:02 PM
wow, it looks taisty, what about the drives that use this disk, will they be very complex or just slightly modified from what we already have?
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by jren207 on 08-29-2004 at 04:26 PM
You might be able to use the same drives but have to use some special software...
just a thought which may not be true...
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by reisyboy on 08-29-2004 at 11:30 PM
No it will probably be a different drive system, like how DVD Drives replaced normal CD Rom - however it odds are you wil get backwards comptable drive's e.g. ones that play DVD Rom and CD Rom 
RE: New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte. by DJeX on 08-30-2004 at 05:39 AM
Can't wait for it to come out.
One thing, Why don't they make hard drives like that. It don't make sense to have 1 terabyte of cd space. It is only good for backup not instalation of programs. You can use it for any thing else really.