Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future ~ 100 DVDs on a single DVD-size disc....

Marketwatch - Cnet ^ | September 28, 2004, 3:37 PM PDT | Rupert Goodwins

[snooker]

But will it be big enough to hold a days worth of posts from FR :-{

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't know!

[atomicpossum]

Incredible storage.....aaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhh....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NEWS BRIEF:
Scientists Create 1,000 GB Disk

By Syndication
09/28/04 8:58 AM PT

The surface of CDs and DVDs are made up of microscopic grooves filled with areas known as pits and land regions, which carry the information. Normal CDs and DVDs carry one bit for every pit. British researchers, however, have now come up with a way to store up to ten times the amount of information from each pit.

British physicists have developed a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that all the episodes of the "The Simpsons" would fit on one disk.

Peter Lorok of the Imperial College London, speaking at a conference in Taiwan Monday, described how he and his colleagues created a way potentially to encode and store as much as one terabyte, which is 1,000 gigabytes, of data. That's 472 hours of film, all on one CD.

That is more than all the extant episodes of "The Simpsons."

Known as Multiplexed Optical Data Storage, it works on a double-sided, dual-layer disk.

Under magnification the surface of CDs and DVDs appear as tiny grooves filled with pits and land regions. These pits and land regions represent information encoded into a digital format as a series of ones and zeros.

When read back, CDs and DVDs carry one bit per pit, but the Imperial researchers have come up with a way to encode and retrieve up to ten times the amount of information from one pit.

Unlike existing optical disks, MODS disks have asymmetric pits, each containing a "step" sunk at one of 332 different angles, which encode the information. The Imperial researchers developed a method that can be used to make a precise measurement of the pit orientation that reflects the light back.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!

[Grampa Dave]

Vapor DVD stuff?:)

[ShadowAce]

hah! I've already got two of these drives on my laptop. It's almost enough to back up my hard drives. :)

[aft_lizard]

so which companies medium will winout and ruin it for the rest of us?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is just the latest one, there is another technology that uses a large number of multiple layers in the disc but still recordes essentially the same way. It should be closer .

I just bought a DVD recorder that can record on a dual layer disc ( which is expensive right now ) for a capacity of 9 Gigabyte on a side I think,...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No idea, but it is wonderful!

[Grampa Dave]

"I just bought a DVD recorder that can record on a dual layer disc ( which is expensive right now ) for a capacity of 9 Gigabyte on a side I think,..."



The last part of that sentence sounds like a true tech weenie, "for a capacity of 9 Gigabyte on a side I think,..."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I need to dig out my instruction manual.

I wonder where I put it?

[Grampa Dave]

Real Freeper Men don't need no stinking instruction manual, maps or any kind of directions.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More Tech-Winnie talk.

Running Linux Fedora Core 2 I have at the moment 63 windows open, 59 of which are Firefox , my 2 gigabyte swap area is still not being used and the System Monitor shows CPU usage around 2 % and Memory load of 346 Megabytes of 1013 Megabytes available...

Responsiveness is near instaneous from 72 Gigabyte of Maxtor Atlas SCSI disks rotating at 10,000 rpms , 2 - 18 Gigs and a newly acquired 36 Gig disk,.

Now if I could get my printer and sound system working better I would really be set.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

????

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL, I only look at manuals well after I should have.

[Grampa Dave]

I'm stuned by your tech winnieism!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Help me, we need some more tech weenies talking here.

[shezza]

Bookmark for the marvels of technology!