Posted by Tarkus on 10/14/07 00:31

Rich Billionaire wrote:
> Read about holographic disks on Wikipedia. Right now they have 300
> gigabyte holographic disks that they sell to TV stations for $120 each
> and the burners cost $10,000. But in the future I think the prices
> will come down enough for the consumer like everything else does in
> electronics. They say the upper limit for holographic disks is 1.6
> terrabytes.
>
> So after everyone has a blue ray or HD-DVD player plush a bunch of
> disks for those, I predict that they will put holographic disks on the
> consumer market and we'll be expected to buy those things all over
> again.

Are they really doing that with HD discs? Seems to me they're pushing
new releases far more than they're pushing replacing your existing
catalog. Not that there isn't some of that too.

But yeah, technology evolves and there will always be new formats. It's
up to each consumer to decide if there is sufficient value in them.
Unless you're opposed to capitalism, I see nothing wrong with that.

They've yet to market a new format, for example, that renders existing
VHS tapes inoperable. And neither HD format renders existing DVDs
inoperable. IOW, if people are replacing their existing catalogs,
they're doing so by choice.

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