Holographic Data Storage!

[Spartan Erik]

http://www.inphase-tech.com/media/inphase_promo.mov

THAT IS THE COOLEST!
i found the press release on yahoo, but here is the link to it on their actual website:
http://www.inphase-technologies.com/news/turneronair.html

turns out that this promo video is of the 300 gb version.. they're planning on a 1.6 TB version of it, with faster burning rates than dvds and cds, up to 960Mb/s!

 

[MicrotechXP]

I just saw tehe Vidio and it is cool! I think that will rock this whole world! Nice find!

 

[Spartan Erik]

another great thing is that the media (cd form) will be cheaper than your normal cds and dvds.. and they're cheap enough already!

the only thing thatll be expensive is the drive to play it IMO

 

[mattspec]

that kicks serious butt, i cant wait for this medium to hit/be accessable to the public for a decent price

 

[Phil]

I can only watch it if I get quicktime, And I hate quick time! lol

 

[Josh]

Can someone describe what's in this quicktime file? I dont use quicktime.

 

[jensen]

hi josh,

you can download the quicktime movie player from the apple site at www.quicktime.com. It allows you to download the iTunes program as well. This then allows you to view quicktime movie formats.

btw, how come you get a cool row of red dots while the rest of us only has a single green dot?

 

[Aroonxors]

They said they don't use quicktime ;D
But yeah that's just... CRAZY. I can't imagine how many other things we would be able to do.

 

[minievan]

btw, how come you get a cool row of red dots while the rest of us only has a single green dot?

Its bad reputation. If i clicked on that little red symbol under your name etc, a few hundred times, im sure you would get at least one

Green-Good
Lots of green- very Good
Red-Bad
Lots of reds': Very bad, Stay clear!!

J.k

-Evan

 

[Spartan Erik]

hi josh,

you can download the quicktime movie player from the apple site at www.quicktime.com. It allows you to download the iTunes program as well. This then allows you to view quicktime movie formats.

btw, how come you get a cool row of red dots while the rest of us only has a single green dot?

haha i beg your pardon jensen, but itunes SUCKS
as for me, i stuck with quicktime 6, knowing 7.0 would go down the crapper with itunes
qt6 isnt that bad of a player.. yes i prefer windows formats but many sites i visit use .mov's..
i should find a movie converter

but to summarize, they talk about how holographic data storage utilizes lasers to store data in depth, rather than surface wise like current cd/dvd burners. it talks about how much data they can store, i.e. 1000 floppies worth of data in the space the size of a fingernail!

they explain how the lasers work to create the data, etc
they show a working model of their drive in action too!
to visually explain it, its like a floppy disk that has the proportions of a cd; the slip opens up and exposes the holographic data cd to the lasers to generate images, text, etc.

its pretty cool! this is definitely the future!

 

[Phil]

hi josh,

you can download the quicktime movie player from the apple site at www.quicktime.com. It allows you to download the iTunes program as well. This then allows you to view quicktime movie formats.

btw, how come you get a cool row of red dots while the rest of us only has a single green dot?

Ok, Hold you mouse over the red and green dots, You can never get more green dots but one, but you can get alot of red. Which you don't want.

I have 62 rep points sooif you hold your mouse ofer my gree dot it says "mr. Brownlove is just relly nice"

Yours is the normal for somone just starting, and josh is off the scale and has a very bad rep haha

 

[Josh]

lol i never noticed all the red dots

i have -2147483647 reputation points

 

[Spartan Erik]

Old thread, but there is an update on the issue regarding holographic data storage; it will be released this Christmas! http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6625003.html?tag=cnetfd.sd

Too bad the player costs $15,000 US and 300 GB discs will cost $120-$180 :eek4:

 

[Brandon]

Old thread, but there is an update on the issue regarding holographic data storage; it will be released this Christmas! http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6625003.html?tag=cnetfd.sd

Too bad the player costs $15,000 US and 300 GB discs will cost $120-$180 :eek4:

Man that is a lot of storage though, expecting 1.6 TB by 2010, my hard drives are like 1/2000 of that.

 

[dillbertdabomb]

WOW good luck buying it...

 

[Chris Z]

WOW good luck buying it...

please do not make these kind of posts, we call it spam, it's useless and you're probably just doing it to get your post count up

 

[dharmil]

yeah this is the future damn amazing