Turner Testing Holographic Storage 174
Izmunuti writes "An article in ComputerWorld describes tests by Turner Entertainment of a holographic storage system from InPhase Technologies as a possible replacement for magnetic tape for storing their movies and other programs for playback and broadcast. The article states that each holographic disk holds 300 GBytes." Even more impressive is the cost per terabyte estimated for just a few years down the road.
A few years down the road... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Yay! (Score:2, Insightful)
the second a home version is released without 60 pounds of restrictions and the owner is evil settings applied to it.
DVD writing at home started the MPAA whining. Although frinds and myself have been backing up DVD's to DLT for almost 6 years now (lots more space and reliability with cheapness now that DLT-V drives can be had for almost nothing on ebay as well as tapes.)
they do not scream that DLT is dangerous because 99% of the consumers dont even know what it is let alone have one.
so it takes me 12 minutes to load a backup and burn to a DVD-RW to watch it or to load it to the transcoder and then push it to dvarchive to view it on the replay tv... who cares.
it's a mass storage medium it can be used for good or evil uses. I prefer evil uses.
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Re:Cost of storage (Score:3, Insightful)
Assuming this isn't vapourware.. perhaps their optics burn all holographic layers at one go, but can only read the layers one by one
inphase press release (Score:1, Insightful)
http://www.inphase-tech.com/news/turneronair.html [inphase-tech.com]
Me thinks the other article is badly misquoted.
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As soon as... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:To Little To Late (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:A few years down the road... (Score:4, Insightful)
Secondly, E-Ink is real. Sony has made a book like reader device with it. The reason you don't see it everywhere is because the creators (among Philips) doesn't think it's ready (speedwise they are improving still) but more importantly they don't wanna go all out until it has color. Nobody wants black and white screens anymore. Oh and yes, they are quite advanced with that aswell.
And Duke Nukem forever will arrive
2010? (was: Re:A few years down the road...) (Score:3, Insightful)