Optical disc offers 500GB storage

[uk-guy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8021012.stm

competition perhaps?

[Anthony P]

holographic disks are nothing new. Like the article says

1)

Micro-holographic technology has been one of the leading areas of research for storage experts for decades.

and over that time we have had are articles pretending it is almost here and PR statements but no product that works , not even the one announced and supposed to launch in 2005 (I think they where under 500 but nothing ever made it to market)

2)

The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry.

so it is not for movies, at least not for consumers. At this point no one even has an idea how to replicate them and studios don’t want extremely expensive media (i.e. buy 20$ recordable disk, put it in burner and take many hours to create the disk)

This is really for people that back up HDD to tapes, now a disk could be easier to use (random access instead of sequential) or if a company has a lot of DVDs of footage (CCM cameras....) you can now put 100 of those DVDs on this.




So until there is a burner/player on the market for archiving (prove it can work- since I am guessing it should be out earlier like with BD) and a way to replicate disks (make it useful for films) it is a none issue.

[Clark Kent]

Mass replication is always the real issue. There are lots of concepts that work in limited runs but costs are always high. I do think technology along these lines will one day be what replaces Blu-ray as the disc medium, but it could be another fifteen years of waiting.