GE's holographic discs and Blu-ray

[scrumptious]

How long before GE's holographic discs come to market do you think?

Do you think holographic disc players will also be able to play blu-ray? dvd? cd?

Do you think when holographic disc players hit, that they will still make blu-ray players just like how they still make dvd players, now?

I think it would be cool to play games on holographic discs. It just sounds cool.

[silverado]

Originally Posted by scrumptious

How long before GE's holographic discs come to market do you think?

Do you think holographic disc players will also be able to play blu-ray? dvd? cd?

Do you think when holographic disc players hit, that they will still make blu-ray players just like how they still make dvd players, now?

I think it would be cool to play games on holographic discs. It just sounds cool.

Couple years. Yes it will play BD and DVD. Depends on how quickly Holograph disc takeoff/don't takeoff.

[Jeff Kleist]

For every disc format that makes it to market, there are 20-30 discs that are developed and press released

For every disc format that succeeds, there areat least half a dozen that fail (there was HD DVD, UMD, the proprietary psuedo-mini DVDs WB was shipping kids titles on, and GameBoy Advance movies, all in the last 5 years or so).

You're not going to see this for any consumer application, and the same goes for pretty much every other one. Blu-ray hasn't even penetrated the writeable market in any quantity yet.

In other words, these discs are intended for industrial applications, just like the over-2 layer Blu-rays, and not for consumer markets. The average joe hasn't figured out what to do with a DVD-5 blank when not pirating movies, let alone a DVD-9 or a BD-25

[Anthony P]

How long before GE's holographic discs come to market do you think?

how long will it be before never?

Do you think holographic disc players will also be able to play blu-ray? dvd? cd?

who cares?

Do you think when holographic disc players hit, that they will still make blu-ray players just like how they still make dvd players, now?

not like DVD now. DVD is on the way out. Even if Holographic disks do come to market (there have been announcement of near launches since 2005 of different sizes) Holographic disks are a recordable media. They won't be used for movies.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against HVDs but since 2005 when InPhase and others talked about launching 100GB/200GB http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology.../100gbhvdholog every few days/months/weeks someone needs to ask about them as the future of movies. Go back and re-read the article. The guy from GE is not talking about movies but archiving. And that is the issue, the capacity is not enough for anyone that would need a semi-permanent archiving of HDDs, that is why every year someone (like Maxel in 2006 and GE in this case and others in between) come out with we got x00GB to work. the issue is that they need a disk big enough to back up a whole HDD. As for movies studios don’t want recordale, they want replicatable, where it takes seconds and cost pennies to make a copy then take hours and many dollars.

[kefrank]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

For every disc format that makes it to market, there are 20-30 discs that are developed and press released

For every disc format that succeeds, there areat least half a dozen that fail (there was HD DVD, UMD, the proprietary psuedo-mini DVDs WB was shipping kids titles on, and GameBoy Advance movies, all in the last 5 years or so).

You're not going to see this for any consumer application, and the same goes for pretty much every other one. Blu-ray hasn't even penetrated the writeable market in any quantity yet.

In other words, these discs are intended for industrial applications, just like the over-2 layer Blu-rays, and not for consumer markets. The average joe hasn't figured out what to do with a DVD-5 blank when not pirating movies, let alone a DVD-9 or a BD-25

I think this post should be stickied and locked in it's own thread that we can link to every time someone talks about 100+GB BDs or holographic discs as if they're just around the corner for the consumer home video market.

[[1080-p]]

I'm surprised no hdtv has holographic glass with black filters

a computer-generated holography rgb (CGH would look awesome
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http://www.est-kl.com/aufbau_general...ammonitor.html
http://www.poc.com/tech_summary/eoh/default.asp

[tron3]

Personally, I think Holographic disc is the technology we need to usher in the portable high density age of 3-1/4" disc. The capacity is so high on those things that you could easily get movies on them using MUCH less compression.

I like to believe 3-1/4"" is the format of the future. The near 4.75" disc of today are behemoths compared to what we could be toting around as portable movie media. Not to mention based on decades old technology. When was the last time you brought a movie DVD or blu-ray to a friends house in your pocket?

As long as the player is backwards compatible with DVD and blu-ray, I see less problem with the transition. Portable players could use the smaller tray size.

[[1080-p]]

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