Holographic discs...around the corner?

[PH3AR]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

So has "Starcraft: Ghost" so I'm not holding my breath.

Logan

that game was supposed to come out years ago and still waiting...

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by PH3AR

that game was supposed to come out years ago and still waiting...

They put it on hold to develop WoW {or some other franchise} and by the time they could spare the man hours to go back to it, the graphics were stupidly out of date.

Logan

[Anthony P]

Everything is vaproware early in it's existence. Blu-ray was once vapor ware too.

the BIG difference is that this is just companies looking for $$. In 2005 inphase was supposed to release 200GB product, in 2006 it was Maxell with 300GB, now this one is not talking about releasing product (especialy for movies) any time soon (with a date) but come on some things are more vapourware then others. Ever since I have been a member here some guy reads these "rosy" articles trying to raise venture capital and all of a sudden we are all supposed to forget we have brains and conclude BD is on its death bed.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have this be real and we can get our movies on 500GB disks (with 500mbps) used to its full potential. But in the end some sobriety is not a bad thing.

[OrlandoEastwood]

It's like; "Damn it, I just switched to Blu-Ray four months ago and all this BS comes out about bigger sized discs."

[SellmeyourDVD]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

It's like; "Damn it, I just switched to Blu-Ray four months ago and all this BS comes out about bigger sized discs."

This has been talked about and known for a while. These discs will eventually be able to hold 3.9 terabytes of info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

[Grumpz]

Haha, already another format war!

"Competing technologies
HVD is not the only technology in high-capacity, optical storage media. InPhase Technologies is developing a rival holographic format called Tapestry Media, which they claim will eventually store 1.6 TB with a data transfer rate of 120 MB/s, and several companies are developing TB-level discs based on 3D optical data storage technology. Such large optical storage capacities compete favorably with the Blu-ray Disc format. However, holographic drives are projected to initially cost around US$15,000, and a single disc around US$120–180, although prices are expected to fall steadily.[4] The market for this format is not initially the common consumer, but enterprises with very large storage needs"

[[1080-p]]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

It's like; "Damn it, I just switched to Blu-Ray four months ago and all this BS comes out about bigger sized discs."

like this one http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...ucts-developed

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...the-market.ars