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Ray007 said:

While I agree that Blue-ray is the superior format, I’m hoping it doesn’t succeed. In all honesty, I hope both the current offerings fail – I’m really hanging out for holographic media.

Off-topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_disk

A Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) can hold upto 3.9TB (yes, Terabytes!) with a transfer speed of 1Gb/s. But I’m more interested in the card variant - HVC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Card.

I agree with marc about solid state media. Whenever there are moving parts, it’s only a matter of time before the device fails (fatigue due to mechanical stress) – I hope future efforts focus on solid state design.

Sorry to drag this further off-topic, but has anyone heard any news about these? According to wiki the HVC is due for a Japanese launch some time this year, with the cards costing roughly $1.00 . Though the reader will be about $2000


 Wiki was edited by some no nothing clown.

 

Holo Discs were released in Q3'05. The reader cost $20m and the 200GB card cost $3m. If the cards managed to be brought down in cost thats great but the tech in them would still cost way to much to sell for a dollar each.



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