G.E's new 500 Gig DVD disks
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Robbie Comeau
Como's back. back again
Gord.T
Still "Senior Member"
500 gig? Ha, that's old school...er, will be...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
//oh, I spoke too soon as usual. Yeah, the holographic has been in research for awhile now.
The goal was 3.9tera so it's a start. Carry on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
//oh, I spoke too soon as usual. Yeah, the holographic has been in research for awhile now.
The goal was 3.9tera so it's a start. Carry on.
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Anhar_Miah
Veteran
CD's to DVDs to Blu-Ray progression has been done simply by designing narrower beams, another approach has been "layering", Holographic media is much more advanced using light patterns and inference etc, this is complex.
I think a much simpler approach exists, which can be done withing the current technologies without the need to do complex holographic mechanisms,
optical media tracks are flat and uniform, however if each track was to be curved, then in theory you could 'pack' more surface area in the same size constraint, you could then have a multi angled laser reader/burner to be able to read these 'curved' tracks thus further increased the number of 'tracks'
Anhar
I think a much simpler approach exists, which can be done withing the current technologies without the need to do complex holographic mechanisms,
optical media tracks are flat and uniform, however if each track was to be curved, then in theory you could 'pack' more surface area in the same size constraint, you could then have a multi angled laser reader/burner to be able to read these 'curved' tracks thus further increased the number of 'tracks'
Anhar
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Sounds like the difference between linear and helical scan tape formats bascially, right?
Dan
Dan
Matt Grunau
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puredrifting
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Oh, the HFG. Yes, now I understand.
Dan
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