Nanoscale light tricks promise huge DVD storage

New Scientist ^ | 5/25/05 | Will Knight

[BipolarBob]

Woo-hoo!! Bootlegging 100 movies at a time instead of one at a time.

[George Smiley]

Bet them thangs scratch real easy.

: ^ )

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

You read my mind fella!

[Red Badger]

WOW! Soon we'll have the capacity to record every song ever recorded and every book ever written on a small shiny disc!........I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!

[newgeezer]

If Iomega is behind it, I'm staying FAR AWAY from it. Anything Iomega develops is bound to be (figuratively and literally) dead within 3 years.

[OrioleFan]

I see a new version of Farenheit 451 called Farenheit, ..., er whats the temperature that a DVD spontaneously combusts?

[Xenophobic Alien]

Maybe they could name it Zipdrive 2

[LibWhacker]

Lol, crazy isn't it? Who in the world is going to buy 100 movies on one DVD? Whaddya gonna do, buy every movie made by Twentieth Century Fox for the last ten or twenty years, 99% of which are junk? There are a lot of uses for this technology, and it's a great advancement, but 100 movies on one DVD ain't it! It's amazing to me that the guy at the end of the article says Hollywood is going to be the main determinant of which standard is adopted. He could be right, but it just seems so unlikely.

[Red Badger]

http://www.plasticstechnology.com/articles/199908cu1.html

[null and void]

And no one would ever need more that 64K of memory, either...

[LibWhacker]

I'd love to have every book ever written on one DVD . . . Your own personal Library of Congress! Don't have a clue how the lawyers will work out the copyright stuff though.

[SengirV]

You are so right, Mr Gates.

[Reeses]

8.5 gigabytes - roughly 1 billion bytes - of data

It should say roughly 8.5 billion bytes. The author must have been thinking gigabits related to networking.

[null and void]

Yeah. You don't have to be smart, or have vision to be insanely rich...

[Lekker 1]

Maybe they could name it Zipdrive 2

I vote for "Bernoulli 2"

[Lokibob]

Think about it, every map ever produced, every satellite and aerial photograph taken, every census, every address, zip code, and phone number. The entire LOC is the tip of the iceberg.

The entire collection of National Geographic (11 disks) is available right now, and it is fascinating.

[BadAndy]

Will the "click of death" be a feature of this Iomega product.

[Oatka]

Bet them thangs scratch real easy.

Yeah, and that tiny scratch will wipe out thousands of frames of pictures or data instead of a scene or two.

Back in the old computers-running-off-tapes days, IBM kept bringing out higher and higher densities. However when those high density tapes got crinkled, lots more data had to be restored from backups.

[DoughtyOne]

While most are thinking of the high end, how much data could be stored on a normal sized DVD, it's also interesting to consider what a 1 or 2 inch removable DVD might do for a palmtop, a phone or a camera.