Posted by Allan on 11/28/05 20:44

A friend of mine has seen them in action already...

So has Turner Broadcasting........

http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=11193&filter=

In fact, Turner Entertainment, a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting
System, has already turned to holographic tech, making it the first
television network to air content originating on holographic storage.
Turner has more than 200,000 movies as well as thousands of
commercials stored on digital tape. As the library grows, retrieval
time and maintaining the tapes becomes costly, especially as more HD
content is adopted.

"The holographic disk promises to retail for $100, and by 2010, it
will have capacity of 1.6TB each. That's pretty inexpensive," Ron
Tarasoff, vice president of broadcast technology and engineering at
Turner Entertainment told Computerworld.com. "Even this first version
can store 300GB per disk, and it has 160MB/sec. data throughput rates.
That's burning. Then combine it with random access, and it's the best
of all worlds."



On 28 Nov 2005 11:49:03 -0800, "Jordan" <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote:

>I'll believe it when I see it. These holographic discs have been due
>"next year" for the last 20 years.
>
>- Jordan







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