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Topic: What next after DVDs?  |
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 07 Aug 2004 09:32 am | #1 |
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Its not long ago that we were handling flimsy 5 and quarter sized floppies holding 1.2 MB data. Then came the hard floppy or the ones that we call it as floppy diskettes. Then came the revolutionary CDs and even better breakthrough in DVD.
Leave the zip drive, flash drive etc - 'cos all of them are old technologies being made handy. zip drive is form of magnetic media with higher storage space. Flash drive is form of transistor technology that is already being used in RAM.
What in your opinion would be the future technology? In what form would data be stored and how would they be transferred/transported and what reading/writing mechanism would be used?
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| 14 Aug 2004 05:07 pm | #2 |
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well i recently came to hear about Blue Ray Discs, which have 5 times the capacity of DVD's , well if u were talking about the future of optical storage then i guess this is whats going to come up or who knows it might cool of and be over taken by something else..
well other new forms of storage i cant think, but what i could image is , maybe something with protein based ? or quantum storage?
bla if i get to know something with my tiny toony brains will let ya know...
well hope to see more posts here in this area
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| 18 Aug 2004 05:45 am | #3 |
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Hi Christ, cud U tell us something about this Blue Ray Discs? How does it store 5 times the capacity of DVD?
Protein based & Quantum based - ???!
Could you throw more light on these too, on what & how exactly would these be applied as storage mechanism?
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| 29 Aug 2004 02:43 am | #4 |
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Terrabyte storage on a CD size disk. Read more at http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm
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| 05 Nov 2004 10:02 am | #5 |
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 no point doing this. this world is governed by SONY, PHILIPS, SAMSUNG like companies! we only 'come to know it'. anything new remains with RICH&FAMOUS for some period, then it comes to Europe and then to rest of world! If I am not mistaken.
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| 22 Nov 2004 10:14 pm | #6 |
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A consortium of companies [Sony, Matsushita, Philips, Samsung, LG, Thomson, Hitachi, Pioneer and Sharp] are working on the new BLU-RAY dvd disc technology. This will mean a new DVD player/recorder & new discs as well.
The new format is called a Blu-ray Disc because a blue laser is used to read/write, which is able to cram more data onto the discs than the red laser currently used.
The new discs will be able to hold 27 gigabytes of data compared with the current limit of 4.7 gigabytes for a standard disc.
Philips has already demonstrated a prototype miniature 3cm Blu-ray disc + drive that can store up to 1GB.
The technology will be backward compatible. i.e the players will play the current generation DVDs, double-sided/layered DVDs & CDs etc. But to play the new BLU-ray discs you have to have the new player.
Work is on for the next gen Blu-ray discs too that could hold up to 50 gigabytes. With this new technology, the development of DL/DS dvds which can hold upto 15gb may die a premature death.
DVDs are used for entertainment[stand alone players] and for IT use. When it comes to PCs, the data path & components [system bus, HDD , processor etc] in the PC also have to be fast enough to work with the the new technology, to accomodate the enormous amounts of data going in/out of the new DVDs. So work is also going on in that area.. [just check out the way Intel is pumping out new boards / processors & the new types of RAM that are being introduced.]
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| 22 Nov 2004 10:36 pm | #7 |
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Although Blu-ray Disc technologies are yet to reach the popular mainstream, a Japanese company 'Optoware Corp' has made progress toward a more advanced holographic technology that may replace Blu-ray & other formats under development today.
The company has developed a so-called Collinear Holographic Data Storage System that uses a green 532-nanometer laser to read holographic data on a 12-centimeter disc.
In the system, light from the green laser is split into two beams. Data to be recorded is encoded onto one of the beams while the other beam is used as a reference. The two beams interfere with each other inside the disc's recording layer & in this way data is stored.
Optware plans to commercialize the technology in the first quarter of 2006, offering reader/writer players and 200GB Holographic Versatile Discs (HVD) for enterprise users. Much less expensive consumer versions could be on the market as soon as 2007.
The company is initially planning to use the technology for enterprise applications. Drives for this market will cost about $20,000 & will initially use 200GB HVDs, with a target cost of about $100 per disc. Drives for home users are projected to cost about $2,700.
While the current capacity of a HVD is around 200GB per disc, future developments could take its capacity up to 1TB* of data on 12-centimeter discs.
A number of Japanese, European and U.S. companies led by Sony have expressed interest in the technology
* 1 Terrabyte = 1024 GBs
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| 24 Jan 2005 10:21 am | #8 |
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Hai,
Recently in Infomatio Technolgy magzine they gave a page about MODs.
Multiplexed Optical Data storage disks.
MODs could store a whopping 1 terabyte of data.
They may come soon.
Blessy
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| 01 Feb 2005 12:46 am | #9 |
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Johnnie Dada Recently Heard Of some thumbnail something...which probably iz kind of a chip which iz capable of storing more stuff than on cd.. dvdz... 
And Hey People Heard of LIGHTSCRIBE TECHNOLOGY Anyone...
its related to writing labels on cds in a monochrome color using the laser that is also used in burning cds...
keep discovering and sharing
LegallyPink
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| 21 Feb 2005 10:20 pm | #10 |
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Hello friends after DVD , u'll find BD or u can say  BLUE RAY DISK
The name Blu-ray is derived from the underlying technology, which utilizes a blue-violet laser to read and write data. The name is a combination of "Blue" and optical ray "Ray". According to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the spelling of "Blu-ray" is not a mistake.
The character "e" is intentionally left out because a daily-used term can't be registered as a trademark
A single-layer disc can fit 23.3GB, 25GB or 27GB.
A dual-layer disc can fit 46.6GB, 50GB or 54GB.
To ensure that the Blu-ray Disc format is easily extendable (future-proof) it also includes support for multi-layer discs, which should allow the storage capacity to be increased to 100GB-200GB (25GB per layer) in the future simply by adding more layers to the discs.
There are plans for BD-ROM (read-only), BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable) drives for PCs 
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| 19 Jul 2005 06:59 am | #11 |
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Well well well....
The next one comin out very shortly is EVD's ...
Thats wat latest upcoming storage media... So lets wait for it .
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