GE Moves Forward With Holographic Disc Storage

[phyzik]

GE Global Research recently announced they are forging ahead with a project that could greatly increase the capacity for storage-on-disc technologies. Their plan is to distribute discs with 500 GB of holographic optical storage.

Read more here: http://news.discovery.com/tech/ge-ho...ge-110730.html

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Dammit Poindexter can the technobabble! Giga, mega, humunga bytes, no one knows what that means. In plain english, how many hours of HD pornography will one of these hold?

[TDMVPDPOY]

better be re-writeable

[phyzik]

Dammit Poindexter can the technobabble! Giga, mega, humunga bytes, no one knows what that means. In plain english, how many hours of HD pornography will one of these hold?

Think 100 DVD's on one disc, or 20 Blue ray disc on one disc.

[Creepn]

Storing pornos are for wierdos.

Click, see, , and exit. 4 simple steps and be done with it.

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol who here collects porn?

[Wild Cobra]

Well, Bluray holds 25 GB per layer, up to 4 layers. This is a 5x improvement over Bluray. Not the paradigm shift I would expect for such an advancement, but still great in my opinion. Now we can have an entire season of a TV series in 1080P 3D format, on one disk!

[TDMVPDPOY]

it all comes down to price per disc

and who be adopting it...lol HD VS BLU