I heard of it a while back. Wont replace Blu-Ray though, dvd will remain mass market and if blu-ray takes over from dvd then that will last a good few more years. whats with all these disc formats and higher resolutions. there is nothing wrong with dvd.

Some Film is scanned in at 4k. So a 4k hd tv would be awesome.

It's only for companies who have exceptional storage requirements and not for mass production FYI
All current optical media (CD, DVD ,and Blu-Ray ) use a stamping process to manufacture a disk in under 4 seconds.
HVD is produced one at a time by a slow writing process so it would be useless for mass production but good for data archiving which is written incrementally.

Regards 4K movie format (sometimes used for digital studio editing of cinema film) experimental Blu-ray at 100Mb( which is claimed to be readable with firmware updates on current drives) or certainly the 200Gb 6 layer format can in theory allready do that or better.

My favourite format would be 2K48 (2048x1080@48 fps)or 3D formats it would be nice to see these on blu-ray and keep it backwards compatible.

Note 4K is higher resolution than current 1080p and 2K digital cinema cameras , 35mm film can only hope to reach this resolution under ideal conditions. From watching Blu-rays most Movies have focus or grain which result in resolutions around 1080p and sometimes lower. 1080p (1920x1080) and 2k (2048x1080) are good enough for a normal cinema screen which is usualy over 20 meters wide.
4K would be good for 100mm Omnimax or 70mm film resolution - could be good for full sourround 180 degree viewing experience.

I've known about 'em for more than a year. I've posted multiple times on VGC about the weakest of the HD-DVD/BRDVD format since HVD is already looming as a much better format already in existance.

Now this is a REAL next-gen movie standard. Imagine fitting an entire season of a TV show, or an entire series of movies (say, every Star Wars movie ever made), in HD, on to a single disc.

Yup; I think I'll be holding off on Blu-Ray, thanks. :)

The disc will be used for other things then just movies like storage. And as far as the 4k TV I don't care how much better it is for 90% of the movies, Tommy Boy is not funnier if I can see Chris Farley pours.

Garcian Smith has a good point about bundles though.

Blu-ray can fit an entire season of a normal SD TV show on one disk - most seasons are around 5 DVD's each - with AVC and VC-1 encoding used it would fit a normal season on a single layer 25Gb Blu-ray - and be far cheaper to manufacture package and buy than a multidisk DVD set.

Of course with more shows moving to 720p and 1080P it would be back to 2-3 Disks per season again perhaps.>>>>>

 Planet earth the 1080P series fitted in 125Gb so 2.5 blu rays would have been enough (it comes on 5 x 25Gb single layers disks)  - However If they continue to develop better encoders OR AND the 4 layer 100Gb disk it may well be possible to get an entire season of a 1080p series on 1 disk.

Hitachi claim the 4 layer 100Gb disk will work with current players via a firmware update though then again it could be BS.

 Just to point out.  The T1 internet connection example you used is a bad example.  A T1 is 1.544 MB/s (full duplex).  True, the average household does not use T1, it's more widely used in buisness application.  But, the currently avaliable high speed internet exceeds T1 speed.

Yeah, it looks like a cool technology, but it has been mia since 2006. No one has said anything about future development or possible products. So, if it is still in development, it will be some time before ti comes to market. (and the question people are asking about BD looms even larger for HVD: Do we need that much space or not?)

You have stumbled upon old news. Announcements were made about this years back and they have not made much advancement in the last while.