6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance 325
gardolas writes "'Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics are two of six companies, who have formed a consortium to promote
HVD technology, which they say can be used to put 1TB of data onto just one disc. The consortium say that a HVD disc could hold about 200 standard DVD's, and transfer data at speeds 40 times that of DVD, about 1GB per second.'
HVD is being seen as a possible successor to Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies."
1TB...that's a lot of... (Score:4, Funny)
Can you say worthless? (Score:2, Funny)
Is there DRM built-in? (Score:5, Funny)
I hope they have technology built in to thwart these evildoing pirates.
Holograph? (Score:5, Funny)
200 dvds ? (Score:5, Funny)
That means nothing to me, can someone covert that into a more practical measurement like Libraries Of Congress (LoC) ?.
You Forget Apple iHDTV 3D Holo-Garage Band (Score:4, Funny)
Souvenirs (Score:3, Funny)
"Choose the 25 megs one, NO ONE will EVER need this much storage!"
Guess what : Needs increase with time and technology. I'm sure if this tech get released after Blueray that we will have a way to fill up 1 TB without thinking too much about it.
Now what we REALLY need is a PERMANENT way of storing data.
Re:Can you say worthless? (Score:5, Funny)
On the other hand, watching somebody who just lost 1TB of data change colours like a chameleon would be interesting to watch.
Re:Can you say worthless? (Score:5, Funny)
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
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Good Lord (Score:5, Funny)
Now that's an error message! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A timeline is emerging? (Score:5, Funny)
Especially if you fill it with 1TB of pr0n
Re:Souvenirs (Score:3, Funny)
That might make the basis of an interesting sci-fi story, whereupon a barren planet with no atmosphere is discovered. This planet would have bizarre patterns of what appear to be meteor impacts all over its surface. The long-dead civilization that built the world-memory would have written the data by accelerating chunks of rock at the surface, rather than using a laser or particle beam. This would have been done in an attempt to mask their real purpose by making them appear to have been meteoritic in origin. Eventually, a brilliant yet eccentric scientist working on his own time would accidentally discover that the "impact craters" are actually data bits, and the decoding of them would reveal some incredible galaxy-wide event that is about to occur.
If anyone decides to write this I want to be mentioned in the foreword, and I want 10% of any royalties.
While higher and higher capacities are exciting... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeh, blu-ray.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can you say worthless? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Can you say worthless? (or can you say stupid) (Score:2, Funny)
Yes. I filled my station wagon with quarter-inch tapes and drove them there.
All along the way I could see other drivers looking at me and underestimating my bandwidth.
So 60 seconds is enough! (Score:3, Funny)
So from foreplay to cumshot, 60 seconds *IS* enough!
I'll tell my wife next time she complains!... Yes darling, an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot said its OK.
Re:Can you say worthless? (Score:3, Funny)
hm.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You Forget Apple iHDTV 3D Holo-Garage Band (Score:3, Funny)
Groan. I HATE people who write things like "thousands of kilo" or "millions of kilo" instead of mega and giga. Jeez! Just use the right damn prefix!
Instead of writing something stupid like quadrillion golybits just convert it to ohmygolybits in the first place!
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