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Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« on: November 19, 2006, 01:01:27 am »
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With the capacity to hold up to 3.9 TB of information, this is a disc that is not to be fooled around with.

Current optical storage saves one bit per pulse, and the HVD alliance hopes to improve this efficiency with capabilities of around 60,000 bits per pulse in an inverted, truncated cone shape that has a 200 micrometer diameter at the bottom and a 500 micrometer diameter at the top. High densities are possible by moving these closer on the tracks: 100 GB at 18 micrometers separation, 200 GB at 13 micrometers, 500 GB at 8 micrometers and a demonstrated maximum of 3.9 TB for 3 micrometer separation on a 12 cm disc.

At 15 meter resolution and 32-bit color (about the resolution found in unpopulated areas on Google Earth), a map of the land masses of Earth would occupy just over 2 TB. Using MPEG4 ASP encoding, a 3.9 TB HVD could hold between 4,600–11,900 hours of video—just over one year of uninterrupted video at usual encoding rates. Using typical satellite radio encoding (CT-aacPlus at 40 kbps), a 3.9 TB HVD could hold over 26.5 years of uninterrupted stereo audio.

The transfer rate is at an average of 1 gigabit/second, or 128 megabytes/second, around 6 times the transfer rate for current 16x DVD storage.

This is far-off future stuff. By 2010, a single disc will cost about $100USD, a player currently costs around $15,000USD.

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2006, 01:06:08 am »
Holy **** thats alot of music! and alot of space
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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2006, 01:07:20 am »
That's more than a hard drive that ways more than me can hold.  Wow.

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2006, 01:15:45 am »
Holy ****ing ****

Amazing technology..
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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2006, 06:18:44 am »
*drools*

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2006, 06:42:55 am »
Pretty good, but I doubt I'd ever have 26.5 years of music...
Would be pretty nifty for elevator music though.

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2006, 08:30:50 am »
Now I ask myself.....is 26.5 years of non-stop music worth 15,100USD? (Including the stereo)
Would I be still alive? o.O

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2006, 09:39:20 am »
This disc could hold all the music you would ever hear!! Man, that's just amazing..
technoligy is advancing alot day by day. It's almost scary.
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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2006, 09:49:45 am »
Holy **** thats alot of music! and alot of space

And a lot of money?

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2006, 10:04:48 am »
I want this for my hardrive.

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Re: Holographic Versatile Disc - :O
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2006, 02:29:30 pm »
Good, I'm not ready to go from disk drives to flash drives yet. Keep the discs around longer.