TG Daily - "Nanotech to increase DVD capacity to 850 GByte"

[RapidSnail]

TGDaily

Nanotech to increase DVD capacity to 850 GByte

Wolfgang Gruener

May 24, 2005 16:37

San Diego (CA) - Iomega believes DVD media to remain competitive with upcoming optical storage technologies such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD: Nanotechnology could multiply the current maximum capacity to 8.5 GByte 40 to 100 times, the company said.

The DVD appears to be far from its end of life according to Iomega's discovery. The firm was granted two patents that cover a specific use of nanotechnology in combination with optical data storage as well as a "method and apparatus for optical data storage." In the patent description , Iomega talks about a technique of encoding data on the surface of a DVD by using reflective nano-structures to encode data in a multi-level format.

This technology, named AO-DVD (Articulated Optical - Digital Versatile Disc), allows more data to be stored on a DVD and could allow future optical discs to potentially hold 40-100 times more information with data transfer rates 5-30 times faster than today's DVDs. Iomega believes that such media could be manufactured at costs similar to those of DVDs.

The firm said it is currently "working to investigate the commercial feasibility" of this format and other nano-structural data encoding formats such as a "NG-DVD" (Nano-Grating - DVD), which uses nano-gratings to encode multi-level information via reflectivity, polarization, phase, and reflective orientation multiplexing.[/i]

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*Wishes these would work in current players*

 

[KLin]

March 24, 2005? Got anything more recent?

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: KLin
March 24, 2005? Got anything more recent?

Look at his nick...he's supposed to be rapid

 

[ballmode]

lolzzzzzz

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: KLin
March 24, 2005? Got anything more recent?

Look at his nick...he's supposed to be rapid

I am teh rapid0r znail in teh west!!11!!1!!@@

I do wonder though if these will ever see the light of day.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: KLin
March 24, 2005? Got anything more recent?

Look at his nick...he's supposed to be rapid

LOFL...so appropriate...nice one...

 

[NanoStuff]

850Gbytes, the good 'ol pre-terabyte stone age.

If I could, I'd like to invite you to the year 2024. We have 1.6 Petabytes on the system but store most our stuff online. 1.6 Petas helps when programming your own genome and running a full-body simulation to test your modifications. We're running nearly 200k of processors. Gates says nobody will ever need more than 640k so we're reaching the end.

 

[Fenixgoon]

tell me when nanotechnology produces something useful, then i'll stop laughing at it.

<--- in the works ceramicist

 

[NanoStuff]

tell me when nanotechnology produces something useful

Bhahahahaha, oh you fool; my aching back, stop the hilarity!