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isaacada1
 Posts: 779 Location: Snohomish, WA |
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Nanoscale light tricks promise huge DVD storage
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7432 Too many choices for anime companies right now to release their content on. dvd hd-dvd blue-ray umd memory sticks and now the above. |
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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Its Iomega I bet it flops.
almost every media format they have released has. Zip,Jazz, that little mini circluar drive one, couple others I cant remember the names of. |
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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UMD is for PSP only, and why would companies release things on a memory stick? My belief is that BluRay will win because Sony and lots of other big companies are supporting it like Dell and HP as well other big movie companies. |
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Emerje
 Posts: 7413 Location: Maine |
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Sounds nice and all, but it also sounds completely useless as a medium for anything other than storage. With the ability to hold up to 100 movies this just isn't practicle enough to be used on a single movie or worth buying expensive hardware to read. I'm sure in about 20 years the technology will be at a point where we'll the extra space to hold higher definition video and photorealistic computer graphics, but for now I think technology is advancing at just the right pace.
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Kazuki-san
 Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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Indeed. This sentence from the article says it all: "Lead researcher at Imperial College London, Peter Török, claims his approach should be more efficient, but admits that success of any system will ultimately depend on the entertainment industry. "The decision as to whether to turn this into a product doesn’t depend on us," he told New Scientist. "It depends on Hollywood." |
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Sir_Brass
 Posts: 476 Location: Prescott, AZ |
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The best up-and-coming techonology, however, isn't any of that, but instead holographic discs, because more than one bit of data can be written to a single spot (switch between data on a single spot simply by changing the reference angle of the reading beam).
I got this info when doing research for a paper I wrote in my fiberoptics course this past semester. The article I found on the ProQuest databases, and is called "Time for Holographic Storage." |
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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There's also the glass memory storage cube. It holds a Terrabyte of information in a 1" square cube using 3D imaging via lasers.
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Sir_Brass
Posts: 476 Location: Prescott, AZ |
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wtf. you're either joking, or dead serious. which is it? |
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Serious. I saw something about it in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics a few years ago.
First link in Google (search string: glass memory storage cube): http://www.pcplus.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=4859&subsectionid=360
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Sir_Brass
Posts: 476 Location: Prescott, AZ |
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still looks like that's in the research phase. Thing with holography is that holography itself has been around for at least 50 years. It's just that now we're thinking outside the box in terms of how to use such a concept that for so long as seemed to be only a novelty.
Note, I am NOT talking about holograms like those on Star Trek, but rather holograms as they exist today, like on some credit cards, etc. This science and art has some real strong potential now for actual practical use, especially with the ability to do digital holography now, so long exposure times can be things of the past. |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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While the war has been going on for awhile now, somehow I feel that Iomega is a bit late coming into the game with this. While reseach is always important in this field, I just don't see them making any waves at this stage. Too much money has already been invested by other major companies, so I really don't see what they hope to accomplish right now.
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Trickstr
 Posts: 19 Location: Tasmania, Australia |
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who knows, theres a lot of shit going around now days but it could be like VHS to DVDs
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Pat Payne
Posts: 45 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Wow. If this comes to pass, that would be a gigantic leap forward. Wonnder how much one of those uber-discs are gonna cost, though...
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angel_lover
 Posts: 645 Location: UK |
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The last thing consumers need is yet another format. From a technical point of view, there isn't really a need for something bigger than DVD for entertainment purposes. The DVD format holds plenty enough data for hours of very high quality audio, and with MPEG 4 and its successors there's easily enough capacity for blockbuster-length HDTV quality movies. Of course, storage manufacturers want to sell their products, and the studios want us to have to buy everything again, plus I expect they'll be having yet another attempt at so-caled unbreakable content protection.
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radicaledward
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