Comments on: GE unveils holographic disc breakthrough

By: tyler

tyler — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:46:01 +0000

Holographic projection anyone. No more screens! Very environmentally kosher (if you are into that). Can you imagine what the porn industry would do with 3d holographic imaging (maybe we need to think about that one), and the blurring of reality. Great technology around the corner as long as we use it to NOT completely distorte reality. Talk about screaming apps!!

By: Euph0ria

Euph0ria — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:55:56 +0000

Another thing about this holographic technology. IT need not be a disk. Solid state material can contain holographic data, without physical contact ever needing to be made. You could do the same thing with a completely solid state sheathed piece of holographic substrate not much larger than a credit card, with no moving parts at all. Just insert card into a r/w device as you might a memory car into a memory card reader.

By: Euph0ria

Euph0ria — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:50:50 +0000

In terms of video storage, there are emerging technologies that will easily take advantage of this amount of storage. 3D Lenticular video, for free viewing, high resolution displays, for example. Assuming 7 (or more) HD video frames are interlaced together and projected with a lenticular 3D display, that will certainly require massive amounts of storage. 3D video and lenticular displays are already here, it’s just a matter of the evolution of the technology now that an acceptable storage medium for the content may now exist.

By: 4Kmovies

4Kmovies — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:54:25 +0000

I see this being good for movie studios, so they can archive 4K resolution movies losslessly for future use. Much like film negatives are kept in salt mines.

By: holoman

holoman — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:08:25 +0000

Now just need to miniaturize (take from large lab to HDD drive size), make it so don’t need
professional lens alignment, can stand stock, temperature, media shrinkage and expansion, light sensitivity, shelf life, oxidation, cross-link problems, etc., etc. and finally get the cost per bit down assuming the ability to reach petabyte storage and beyond.

I persoanlly don’t think the technology presented will be reliable and cheap.

Something every holographic storage to date has failed, spending hundreds of millions of dollars and no real
cost effective solution……yet…maybe someday !

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:05:16 +0000

Foolish people, Flash drives are not the future. Do you think that the capacity will keep expanding magically over time? Sure some Flash Drives can reach 120gb in storage but we can only physicaly fit so much data into a physical space. Holographic cubes probably protected inside a flash drive like case with their own r/w laser will be able to store terra bytes if not peta bytes of information. Sure movies as of right now do not store much information but in the future when holographic imaging on 2d surfaces becomes possible, all that space will be needed plus more. This is also going to be able make computures smaller, perform at literally the speed of light, And alot lighter. And to those who argue about durability and scratching, The industry of chemical science is bound to produce transparent liquid applications with streangth near that of diamond that are far supperior at resisting scratches and even the most hostile environments. And to the 100 disks on 1 holographic disk is mor eco friendly argument, Yes that is true that you probably wont buy 100 movies on 1 disk and save all that plastic, but less materials will be needed for a much larger data storage. Like all those programs, dvd box sets, video games ect. that have more than 1 disk will be able to fit all of the information on 1 disk instead on the 2~10 it would normaly take up. This would be in the long run saving alot of plastic and contaminates than producing 10 dvds for what could be fit onto a single holo disk. So in that case the holographic disk would be alot more eco friendly.

By: Shane Taumore

Shane Taumore — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:57:27 +0000

i HAVE HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE INFO FOR SALE ,THIS IS A ONCE ONLY OFFER,MY APPLICATION IS BASED ON LIGHT ,SOUND FREQUENCIES AND VIBRATION ,NO MAGNETIC APPLICATIONS ARE NEEDED,IF YOUR NOT ,I will race you to have the first volumetric data holographic storage unit,that is cheaper than anything you can make,magnetic applications ha ha ha,I INVITE YOU TO CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT ,IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TECH,OTHER THAN THAT WORK WITH ME

By: michael whitehouse

michael whitehouse — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:48:31 +0000

Holographic memory / thumb drives would be a better medium way for personal data storage as CD / DVD / Blueray discs are quite vunerable to scratches and not they are not really very portable. I personally think that the long term strategy of any business’s archive won’t be versatile discs at all but Archive towers of Holomemory (SSD’s and better) which can be accessed at exceptionally low latency times via broadband or beyond and interface through fibre networking. This then relieves the need to archive data as such, as the data will always be online, and with todays encryptions, well holographic encryption would surely be the ultimate security. This all sounds SciFi but the technologies already exist, they’re just out of the reach of the average consumer and medium to small business. There should be no price for personal storage just a small token for the purchase of the product, as most research happens because corperates generally want the technology and pay for the technology as they need it, throught sponsorship or other means.

Data archive of Movies? surely this cannot be on the same scale as Data archive for Cancer research? Aids and other vaccination research or Radiography in hospitals. Yes enjoy the latest Blue Ray movies… players are still in the 100$ range after 3 years from initial launch and movies are (although slowly dropping) still over priced. Surely give the average consumer the ability to store 100 DVD onto 1 disc opens up the world of piracy, as GE say 500 cd’s of data thats 500 music albums to the average consumer. Movie and Music archives need to be completely different to that of the average consumer or the piracy will never stop. To succeed in the mass archive business one would expect mass produced media at cents per gig and reader / writers in the sub 30$ categories.

that is just my 50cents

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:53:55 +0000

It would be interesting to see the environmental specs for the holographic media as well as the predicted useable lifetime for media. Holographic has the promise to rival LTO-4 technology in a data backup capacity with its advertised 120MB/sec speeds and capacity. Holographic won’t have all of the mechanical pitfalls and load, seek, rewind, speed matching times as with tape because it will be randomly accessible media. Providing holographic media can be made as durable as Blu-ray media, it will quickly become an excellent option for long term compliance data archival requirements.

By: hotmiami

hotmiami — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:16:14 +0000

Does anyone recall those sony mini disks enclosed in a plastic enclosure and a plastic slide which covered the surface exposure [slide aside] of the disk, not dissimilar to the 3.5" "floppy" disks in the days of yore. This technique completely protects the medium from fingerprints, scratches, dust, you name it. A capitol investment would be required to adopt a similar protection of the GE disks. Further, the medium itself need not be the same size as a cd/dvd. It could be smaller and still pack a punch of say 25K Gig. I suspect these little jewels will ultimately hold 1T. I dont see it as a replacement for cd, dvd, or blu ray. Rather a new medium, but holding such a vast amount of data, it must be protected from the yoyos handling them like a hamburger in their hand, thus the cover over the read/write surface. Im repeating myself. Once it hits the streets pricing will drop as always. Let the pioneers get the arrows in their backs first before jumping on board. Nuff said.