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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?

im not to smart...wats a terabyte? 10 gigs? or sumat

1000 gigabytes

it's the gmail of discs lol

This is gonna kick the crap out of blu-ray

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

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.

blah have to correct it's 1024 gb

MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *drools* there's not even many hard disks out with this type of storage space. Certainly not 'normal' size hard drives offering this.

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?