Nanotech to increase DVD capacity to 850 GByte !!!

[lilkoy123]

Will this new technology replace Blu-ray sometime in the future??


By Wolfgang Gruener, Senior Editor

May 24, 2005 - 12:37 EST

San Diego (CA) - Iomega believes DVD media to remain competitive with upcoming optical storage technologies such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD: Nanotechnology could multiply the current maximum capacity to 8.5 GByte by a factor of 40 to 100, the company said.

The DVD appears to be far from its end of life according to Iomega's discovery. The firm was granted two patents that cover a specific use of nanotechnology in combination with optical data storage as well as a "method and apparatus for optical data storage." In the patent description, Iomega talks about a technique of encoding data on the surface of a DVD by using reflective nano-structures to encode data in a multi-level format.


This technology, named AO-DVD (Articulated Optical - Digital Versatile Disc), allows more data to be stored on a DVD and could allow future optical discs to potentially hold 40-100 times more information with data transfer rates 5-30 times faster than today's DVDs. Iomega believes that such media could be manufactured at costs similar to those of DVDs.

The firm said it is currently "working to investigate the commercial feasibility" of this format and other nano-structural data encoding formats such as a "NG-DVD" (Nano-Grating - DVD), which uses nano-gratings to encode multi-level information via reflectivity, polarization, phase, and reflective orientation multiplexing.
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050524_123707.html

[Handycrap101]

All of that space is just rediculous.... there is no need for consoles to have that much memory on a single disc. Not even when they release some future PS like PS6.

[Ducey]

Whats wrong with future proofing one aspect? I mean surely there will be a breakthrough in another area in the years to come, and another, and another.

And in all likeliness, at some point in the future theyre going to look back and go "Thank christ we had 200Gb disks otherwise this project never would have been possible.


Never doubt a technology's usefulness, even if it isn't immediately apparent or applicable.

[stanDarsh]

Moving to "Everything Else"

[Z]

Never doubt a technology's usefulness, even if it isn't immediately apparent or applicable.
Of course.

Now, think what happens if they do the same with BD!

[rev>thanu]

http://www.dvd-recordable.org/Article1471-mode=thread-order0-threshold0.phtml

Holographics DVDs. 40 times the transfer rate of todays DVDs and holds 200 times the capacity. making that whoping 1 terabyte and i assume that's only on a 5 layer H-DVD. imagine an 8 layer and beyond.

[Z]

we already have an old thread for holographic disks . Besides holo-disks aren’t available on the market yet and they will be unreachably expensive for consumer use..

[Shadow CRX]

I think if the general capacity of disc's are higher, the better. That means super high quality in games, movies, music CD's . Thats a good thing. Every thing will be a super high quality with plenty of space to spare.
I personally think its good thing. :P