GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that C|Net has a bit more news for us on the holographic disc, we have been following this story for a while already. It seems now that CMC and Fuji Photo, along with four other players have formed a consortium to help crystalise this strategy. They are saying once again, that this method will ultimately allow consumers to store 200 movies on one disc. The holographic discs will feature a data transfer rate of 1 gigabyte per second, which according to the article is about 40 times faster than our current DVD's. With this in mind, they are touting HVD or Holographic Versatile Disc as a possible successor to the upcoming Bluray and HD-DVD models.
 HVD technology will be pitched at corporations and the entertainment market, the HVD Alliance said. The technology behind HVD is based on holography technology from Japan"s Optware, one of the six founders of the consortium. A technical committee formed last December to flesh out HVD standards. Sony unveiled a home server with 1TB of storage for the Japanese market last year. Half of the capacity would be enough to record six channels of TV for five and a half days non-stop, Sony said. The organization, however, is looking at first developing discs with lower capacities. The first assignments of the technical committee involve coming up with standards for a 200GB recordable disc and a 100GB read-only disc. If history is an indication, consumers will fill the disc up. High-definition broadcasting and gaming are also expected to add a heavy burden to existing home storage systems because of the size of the files. Two hours of HD programming takes up about 15GB to 25GB. |
Well, there is nothing wrong with more storage! Looks like optical technology is ready to provide for our future needs.
Source: C|Net
