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A single holographic disc can hold up to 20 movies

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Lifer
New data-storage technology unveiled

Monday April 8 2002 Denver Post

Longmont-based InPhase Technologies will show off a new storage technology today that can hold 20 movies on one disc. The privately held company will demostrate a holographic video recording system at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, which continures until Wednesday.

Unlike DVD and CD-ROM drives which write data on the surcace of a disc, holographic systems record data throughout the thickness of the material, which give the disk greater capacity. Today will be the first time a holographic system is pubicly demostrated.

InPhase a spinoff of Bell Labs, expects to release its first holographic recording system by the end of 2003.

Initial system will hold 100 gigabytes of data on one disc and will be able to transfer data 15 times faster than standard DVD drives.

The company is targeting holographic drives, which will be slightly larger than a DVD drive, to television and film industries for archiving purposes....

althourgh holographic systems have a higher storage capacity and faster transfer speeds than standard disc drives, a major weakness in the technology is that it isnt re-writeable.


*** THIS IS SOME COOL SH*T!!!!!!!


Sorry for the typos, got to bed at 11, got paged at 2 and had to drive into work because of a damn BSOD :|
 
<Dons Helm if Cynicism +1>

WE won't see this any time soon. The RIAA and such with get out their lawyers and pet politicians and strangle this, like any new technology which they perceive as the slighest threat to their profits, in it's crib.

<removes Helm of Cynicism +1>
 
Probably true, though it's a bell labs company and right now it looks like they only plan to sell to studios.
If it does go public though the mpaa and riaa will probably do everything they can to kill it.
 
i reallyhope this goes public sometime. and teh riss and mpaa stays teh fu*k away because i heard sbout this tech like 5 years ago and ive been waiting for it ever sencs
 
Just a point of view.

A disc that can hold so much data, aren't we gonna get lost in it? Its bigger than conventional hard disk! I mean, for now, at most we can record one or two movies on a cdr. So, its easy to write on the disc whats inside. These holographic things would need some sort of catalogue! Just wondering how its gonna be done
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Not that I mind though 🙂

 


<< Just a point of view.

A disc that can hold so much data, aren't we gonna get lost in it? Its bigger than conventional hard disk! I mean, for now, at most we can record one or two movies on a cdr. So, its easy to write on the disc whats inside. These holographic things would need some sort of catalogue! Just wondering how its gonna be done
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Not that I mind though 🙂 >>



I would question the quality of two movies you can put on a single cdr. Anyways, this would allow for greatly increased sound performance on discs, and how can this hurt the RIAA? This can only help them, with a movie so big, people will have a lot harder time ripping it to SVCD, etc. Currently, it's usually the fastest to rip straight acros to svcd with current bitrates/everything. Whole movie = two hours processing, versus other methods which take 9-11 hours. With something this big, you might put a dent in piracy for a while. Keyword, while.

Anyways, it would be super for anime series and such. Can you imagine getting all of Dragonball, Dragonball Z, and Dragonball GT on 2 discs? Currently, that's absurd, but not with this. Although they suck...
 
C'mon GermyBoy, how big can a super good quality movie get? 5 gigabytes? I could be wrong there though, it could be bigger 😉

So that would account to 20 movies on a single disc! Unless you pop the disc in and explore it, there is no way to know what it contains.


Aw, what am I arguing about? Its not even out yet 😛 🙂
 


<< C'mon GermyBoy, how big can a super good quality movie get? 5 gigabytes? I could be wrong there though, it could be bigger >>

Braveheart is about 7.6GB, and that's DVD quality. I doubt it gets better than that.

 


<< Braveheart is about 7.6GB, and that's DVD quality. I doubt it gets better than that. >>

It's called film. 🙂

In the digital world, it's called uncompressed.


And the only reason I can see a larger format coming out is higher quality home video.
 
Yum, 100GB of uncompressed video. DVD is still a lossy format. The compression artifacts are sometimes noticable, depending on the film and the transfer job. The Usual Suspects DVD, in particular, suffers from compression artifacts and is not the final word for that title.
 
Theoretically a movie could be a million terrabytes in size if they used high enough quality recorders to make it. Dvds with 5 gigs are pretty damn sharp, but definitely not as sharp as one could get even now. Of course most people probabaly couldn't tell the diff between a 5 gig and a 15 gig movie - at least not unless it was on an incredibly high quality screen.
 
It's nice to see some people saying that 100GB is huge. I remember listening to people around me say,
why on earth would you need more than 640KB of memory. The bottom line with most of the high
density media technology is that the RIAA and other even bigger media industries have a vested
interest in suppressing technologies such as this. They believe that with such technology, the
average computer user will be able to make virtually perfect copies of their copyrighted content.

Granted these media giants do have limited power, but have you read anything in a newspaper
or heard on the news anything about SSSCA or CBDTPA? This is the bill discussed in the second from
the top thread in ATOT. The media giants are the main reason we have not seen a bigger roll-out
of HDTV. It has nothing to do with their ability to do so.

It is interesting how the holographic technology has been moving around. I'm pretty sure this is
the same as the flourescent technology of a few years ago. Can't remember the name of the company.
A non-writeable format has been around for a few years, it's nice to see that they have gotten the
technology to the writeable step.
 


<< Theoretically a movie could be a million terrabytes in size if they used high enough quality recorders to make it. Dvds with 5 gigs are pretty damn sharp, but definitely not as sharp as one could get even now. Of course most people probabaly couldn't tell the diff between a 5 gig and a 15 gig movie - at least not unless it was on an incredibly high quality screen. >>

You're assuming TVs stay at the same resolution. There will eventually be higher resolution than HD and we'll need formats to accomodate those resolutions.
 
Whatever happened to FMD's, they could potentially hold up to 1 Terabyte, it sounds very similar to it anyways.
 
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