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Time to trade in the DVD burner
I give it about five years Max..........anyone for the five disc, Library of Congress.
Group aims to drastically up disc storage Published: February 3, 2005, 2:47 PM PST By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack A few hundred movies on an optical disc? That's the goal of the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance. Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc. A TB-size disc would certainly compress movie collections. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD. HVD is a possible successor to technologies such as Blu-ray and HD DVD. Single layer Blu-ray discs hold about 25GB of data while dual-layer discs hold 50GB. Ordinary DVD discs, meanwhile, hold about 4.7GB. HVD technology will be pitched at corporations and the entertainment market, the HVD Alliance said. The technology behind HVD is based on holography technology from Japan's Optware, one of the six founders of the consortium. A technical committee formed last December to flesh out HVD standards. Sony unveiled a home server with 1TB of storage for the Japanese market last year. Half of the capacity would be enough to record six channels of TV for five and a half days non-stop, Sony said. The organization, however, is looking at first developing discs with lower capacities. The first assignments of the technical committee involve coming up with standards for a 200GB recordable disc and a 100GB read-only disc. If history is an indication, consumers will fill the disc up. High-definition broadcasting and gaming are also expected to add a heavy burden to existing home storage systems because of the size of the files. Two hours of HD programming takes up about 15GB to 25GB http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/Grou...html?tag=st_lh |
I think that it will take longer then 5 years for this to replace what we are currently using, UNLESS both hd-dvd and bluray flop. I say this because I don't think taht many people will want to switch to a new optical format so soon.
I also don't know how long it would even take for consumer versions of this tech to become affordable to the masses. |
I agree with heyal, I don't see this becoming anything more than a corporate storage device for at least 10-20 years.
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Blu-ray/HD DVD Could Become Irrelevant as HVD Nears
GameDaily biz finally got around to reporting on this.
http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.as...feature&email= Quote:
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must be fun burning one of these puppies - can anyone say "over nighter"
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Sweet, a burner that's 40 times faster that must record a thousand times the data.
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My question is how much the costs are for the mega burner and the media. Doubt that the average TFPers will be able to afford. How many of us own a dual layer burner? Now, how much do the dual layer discs cost? too much!
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Recently, while sitting on the john, a couple of ideas came to me regarding data storage technology. Firstly, there are only 24 hours in a day, so the fascination with more data storage will reach a peak when we are falling asleep before a disc runs out. Secondly, compiling more movies onto a disc for archival purposes is all well and good, but any serious collector or librarian knows that spanning an archive over multiple parts is important for the safety of a collection. Imagine having your entire movie collection on two discs, then losing one.
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