Posted on 06/03/2005 9:39:00 PM PDT by phoenix0468
The tantalising prospect of DVDs capable of holding almost a terabyte of data - or several hundred movies - has been presented in a patent issued to US storage company Iomega.
The US patent describes a disc that could store 40 to 100 times more information that a conventional DVD, using more nanometre-scale sloped ridges to diffract light. US patent number 6879556 - entitled "Method and Apparatus for Optical Data Storage" - was issued to Iomega on April 12 2005.
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That would work out to about 250 movies per disk compressed with DivX or a similar standard.
I wonder if the MPAA will sue Iomega. The potential for an entire year's movies to be available for a few dollars (eventually) on a single disk would surely be as great a threat to them as P2P technologies are.
I need to write my Science Fiction stories faster. I'm getting scooped by reality.
Now I'll need to rewrite "First Phoenix."
Thanks for the ping.
I wonder if this technology requires a different media?
This is not a multiple layer scheme so that is a plus.
I was wondering what would keep Iomega from going under... ;')
A shame their products are crap.
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