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Electronic Theatre reports on the unveiling of a new storage medium offering the capacity of up to 100 DVDs, to which each Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have reportidly shown interest.
Holography is a technology that has been used in a variety of formats for many years. Projecting a series of light patterns to an optical input (such as the human eye or, in this case, a data-reading laser) the capabilities of holographic projection have thus far been limited to large-scale tourist attractions and a handful of Arcade machines from the late 90’s in the public sector (aside from various medical implementations). However, a US research team, General Electric, claim to have capitalised on the possibilities of the technology by delivering holographic optical media with the capacity of around one-hundred standard DVDs on a single disc.
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I'm hoping Sony will have something new, MS will have at least BD (but I'm leaning more toward MS using something . . . digital or something), and Nintendo can have this holography
Now, unless they decide to go with the idea I thought of a while back, to where each console plays all the games and not just their own! (Yeah, I know, it'll happen the day after never.)
http://www.gamegrep.com/blog/19940-blurays_time_is_short_holography_is_where_the_moneys_at/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/pioneer-shows-off-16-layer-400gb-blu-ray-disc-affirms-compatibi/
But I disagree with this article HVDs are WAY to expensive to throw out on to the mass market, even if 4-5 years or so. It costs like £70 for a disk a lone.
Blue ray is not a holographic disk because it doesn't use holography to read the data. No disk stores data on the surface.
"Blu-ray" with 16
layers IS an holographic storage device , if GE didn't call their disc "20 layer blu-ray" , it's for avoid the royalties.
"Holographic storage stores data throughout the entire disk in multiple layers, increasing the density of the storage"
"Because GE's micro-holographic discs could essentially be read and played using similar optics to those found in standard Blu-ray players"
SOURCE: http://www.crn.com/storage/217200230;jsessionid=KWBSIFU1YDZ2MQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN
Which means the GE PLAYERS will be able to READ BLUE-RAY AND DVD DISKS. It is not saying the holgraphic disk is the same as blue-ray otherwise it would be able to be read in blu-ray players and DVD players. Which is obviously not the case otherwise they would not have developed a drive for it in the first place. Its talking about THAT manufacturer's specific drive, not holographic data as a whole. Just like how some blu-ray players can read DVDs and some cant.
A multi-layered disk is not new, there are multi layered DVD disks, its still stored in a 2d fashion, just on multiple layers, a Holographic disk stores its data in 3 dimensions.
It says EXACTLY: "GE's breakthrough is a huge step toward bringing our next-generation holographic storage technology to the everyday consumer," said Brian Lawrence, who leads GE's Holographic Storage program, in a statement. "Because GE's micro-holographic discs could essentially be read and played using similar optics to those found in standard Blu-ray players, our technology will pave the way for cost-effective, robust and reliable holographic drives that could be in every home. "
ITS NOT A BLU-RAY DISK.
The information is 1 or 0 , but from the angle/layer that you read it , it can be 0 or 1 .
In this case there is 20 angles/layer readable , the disc made by Pionner("16 layer blu-ray") had only 16 angle/layers readable.
You can clearly see on the picture(8 posts above) that the Pionneer(16 layer blu-ray)disc is transparent , because it's an "holographic" disc.
http://techfragments.com/news/715/Hardware/Move_Over_Blu-ray_-_GE_Shows_Off_500GB_Holographic_Disc.html
They are working on a recorder not a player , because "blu-ray" players can read this 500GB disc ... DVD player could also read those informations but the disc would have a smaller capacity (=20 layer DVD).
So you final post the article that you were talking about earlier, which is funny how you denied linking the wrong one in the first place.
"Because GEs micro-holographic discs could essentially be read and played using similar optics to those found in standard Blu-ray players, our technology will pave the way for cost-effective, robust and reliable holographic drives that could be in every home. The day when you can store your entire high definition movie collection on one disc and support high resolution formats like 3-D television is closer than you think."
Key word there, SIMILAR NOT THE SAME, SIMILAR. He is NOT SAYING THAT IT CAN BE READ BY BLU RAY PLAYERS, He is saying it could be read using SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES.
Seriously man, for you to think that companies would go to the effort of faking a new technology and faking all these things just to doge paying a royalty for using the term "blu-ray" is pathetic.
BUT:
- Holographic storage are not "3D information" it's binary code , they don't ONLY use different layer but also different angle for read the information(like the hologram on a credit card ,if you watch it from left or right it's different.
- "Blue"beam has a shorter wavelength so it will be the best lens with ANY KIND of media.The GE approach for store information is to use multiple layers of substrate(transparent)to make the disc (and not using a metal layer). The disc on the picture has at least one metal layer inside of it and is not what GE has shown.
you fit every GTA ever made and then for shits and giggles the entire metal gear series in that much space.
Who knows, maybe whatever's next for gaming will require that much space.
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