   Holographic DVD
  DVD's with a new tech.ArticleSo the DVD's will be able (potentionally) to store 100 times more data than regular DVD's, pretty cool.(edit : changed the topic title)[Edited by - Marmin on May 22, 2009 4:09:47 AM]
  That story is from 2005. Check out this story from yesterday: How to fit 300 DVDs on one disc "... researchers say this could see a whopping 1.6 terabytes of information fit on a DVD-sized disc."   ;  Yep, you're right. For some reason I heard about it on Dutch news only yesterday. I changed the article link to more recent.;  Like most things, I'll believe it when I see it on a store shelf.Still pretty cool stuff though.   ;  As a kid, I had an All About These New-Fangled Digital Computer Thingies book that talked about the current level of technology (floppy disks) and about the holographic storage that would be replacing them Real Soon Now. That was about twenty years ago. I have since stopped holding my breath.   ;  According to the BBC story, the 300 dvd holding dvd is made of gold ("The technique employs nanometre-scale particles of gold as a recording medium."), so yep, I'm not holding my breath either. "Dr Chon says that the material cost of a disc would be less than $0.05 (£0.03), but there are a number of advantages in moving to silver nano-rods that would bring that cost down by a factor of 100."   ;  cool, another DVD / BluRay war in the making!   ;Quote:Original post by oliiicool, another DVD / BluRay war in the making!Personally, I think the holographic HD-DVDs are going to win it.   ;  instead of seeing bigger + bigger storage Ild prefer them toA/improve the discs durability, how often I get a dvd from the video-libray + it doesnt play smooth cause some mothers scratched it (though apparently blu-ray are more scratch resistant but Ill believe it when I see it)B/improve the lifetime of the median, 5-10 years is not long enuf, ppl are gonna be pissed off when one day they stick an old dvd into the player to look at their kids photos + the thing doesnt play   ;Quote:Original post by LessBreadThat story is from 2005. Check out this story from yesterday: How to fit 300 DVDs on one disc "... researchers say this could see a whopping 1.6 terabytes of information fit on a DVD-sized disc."Whopping?It's ok I guess, I mean, it's around the size of a harddisk. So if it ever gets to the market and there exists a writer for it, you can once again back up all your photo's and data to optical storage without having to manually insert 20 disks in the writer.But once there was a time when optical storage was much more whopping than now. CD's were 650MB while hard disks were not even 100MB. Now hard disks are huge compared to optical disks and this "300 DVDs" disk just makes it around the same size as a HD, except that such HD's are on the market right now and holographical disks aren't.I wonder if optical storage might catch up to magnetic or solid state storage once again some day.Sorry for sounding negative about it, it's just because I liked the idea of having a disk that can be written only once to put your backups on, and once they really were large enough, but now they're just too small to be handy.   