Forget bluray and hd-dvd, check out hvd

Author: Darth Balls
Date: 5-Feb-2005, 6:38 AM

Author: Darth Balls
Time: 5-Feb-2005 6:38 AM
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HD-DVD and Blu ray may have another rival, HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc)
CNET Article

It holds 1 TeraByte of data, thats 200 dvds on one disc and has a transfer rate of 1gig a second.

Author: Hal 9000
Time: 5-Feb-2005 7:00 AM
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That sounds pretty sweet. It sounds better than the other two, judging just by the this post.

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

Author: TheSessler
Time: 5-Feb-2005 8:14 AM
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Thats one hell of an amount of data.

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Author: starkiller
Time: 5-Feb-2005 8:54 AM
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*thinks for a second to remember that IBM commercial...

(narrated by Avery Brooks)
Long ago, everything was measured in kilobytes, then came megabytes and gigabytes.
Then terabytes, picabytes and exabytes.
Soon we will arrive at yottabytes.
How big is that?
10 to the 24 power. 1 billion trillion bytes (??).

How many Libraries of Congress per second can your software handle.

I've got the commercial on my computer at home, downloaded it back before adcritic.com became a pay site.

Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 5-Feb-2005 10:39 AM
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Is it just an optical illusion, or is the HVD physically larger? Hopefully not, as a larger disc would have problems fitting into a standard 5 1/4" sized bay.

I am the BASF of the film community. I don’t make the films you watch. I make the films you watch better.

Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 5-Feb-2005 11:08 AM
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What does it matter? There will probably be need to buy a specialized machine to play them anyway, so they'll have the right size trays.

Author: TheSessler
Time: 5-Feb-2005 1:21 PM
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Is it just an optical illusion, or is the HVD physically larger? Hopefully not, as a larger disc would have problems fitting into a standard 5 1/4" sized bay.

Which is probably the reason it might not catch on like the other two.

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."

Author: DanielB
Time: 5-Feb-2005 1:24 PM
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This is not a new development. Holographic discs have been developed to this point for a good couple of years now. From what I remember there are still many concerns with the proposed format. It requires two physical lasers. It is not a true digital format. As I understand it, they are wanting to release the format in 12cm form - the standard disc size. Also, the disc you mentioned holds 200GB of information, not 1 TerraByte (1,000 GB)!! Optware might CLAIM that the discs could (theoretically) hold terrabytes of data, but they are only developing for commercial use 200GB recordable, and 100GB read-only discs, ten times smaller than 1 terrabyte! The format won't be released before 2008 either, by which time it's entirely possible a rival format will be able to compete with the 100GB of storage offered by the format.