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08/26/2004: Technologica Technologica

Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc
from Optware Corp.

"Optware Corp. has announced successful playback of digital movies on a new holographic recording disc with a reflective layer. Known as the Collinear Holographic Data Storage System, the disc has a one terabyte storage capacity and one gigabyte transfer speed. The disc size is 12cm, comparable to that of a DVD and a CD."

1 terabyte. Yep, 1000 gigabytes. If they pull this off, it will make the CD as irrelevant as the 3 1/2" floppy.


Friday the 27th of August, santo26 noted:


so our modern- day CDs will be the equivalent of 78 records. "wow, grandpa, there were only 20 vanilla ice songs on just one side of this huge fragile disc?"