09-30-2004, 04:00 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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1000GB DVDs on the Way?
"DVDs are one of the most successful consumer products in history. Most DVDs have two layers and can hold up to 8.5GB. Work is already well advanced on the next generation. One technology, HD-DVD (High Definition DVD), can hold up to 30GB, while a rival format called Blu-ray offers 50GB of storage. The technique developed by the Imperial College team could offer much more on a disc. The researchers believe their technique could be used to create a disc with four layers, each with 250GBs - the equivalent of 118 hours of video per layer. A four-layer DVD could hold one terabyte (1,000GBs) of data, enough for 472 hours of film, or every episode of The Simpsons ever made. "
So, continuing on the storage theme of yesterday, we now have the prospect of outlandishly large capacity DVDs. My cup runeth over! :wink: The BBC article points out that this new technology also enables mobile devices to be able to use small diameter disks. Ie. you could have optical media on your PPC. Teeeeeny, tiny DVDs, that can still hold multiple gigabytes. Lots of posibilities there. Still, the Imperial College team think that it could take five years to perfect the technique, with a commercial version possibly available by 2010. Lots of time to start saving for one. :wink:
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