GE Developing 1TB Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive

Globally Mobile writes "The Register has this article concerning GE's announcement that it has been developing a 1 terabyte DVD-size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player. Peter Lorraine, GE's lab manager, talking at an Emerging Tech conference last week, said that license announcements could be expected soon. He also mentioned the notion of disks having the capacity of 100 Blu-ray disks, implying a 2.5TB or even 5TB capacity, gained by increasing the number of layers used for recording. The discs will be used for high-end commercial niches initially and then migrate to consumer markets in 2012-2015. Also here is a video of the technology explained. Wish we could see this sooner! Reminds me of the technology that Bowie's character came up with in The Man Who Fell to Earth."

Re:I would have thought

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't even ask about the price for DV-DA. .... (I blame Trey Parker for warping my brain.)

Re:Remix

[SHaFT7]

1TB discs? Now OSes can be even BIGGER!

Re:Tb or TB or TiB?

[Mekabyte]

1 tuberculosis

Re:Tb or TB or TiB?

[Anonymous Coward]

TitBytes, as in how many tit pictures you can fit in the disc.

Re:Remix

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty soon you'll be able to store your entire porn collection on a 1 pedobyte disc.

Re:Tb or TB or TiB?

[gnick]

TriBbles. It's an unfortunate organic consumable necessary for disc production, but they're fairly easy to replicate.

Re:It can still lose!

[kazade84]

I think it already did... DVD is the victor.

It would be nice if you

[Anonymous Coward]

used the subject as a short summary of your post, rather than the informationless beginning of your comment.

Re:Well

[ColdWetDog]

I find I'm "skipping a generation" in many technologies: Operating systems, storage standards, gaming consoles, etc.

Parents cut off your allowance again?

Gonna have to buy another copy of

[wiredog]

the White Album.

I agree

[Anonymous Coward]

No, wait, I think I got this backwards.

Re:Remix

[gEvil (beta)]

So do what most people do and dedicate a portion of the disk(s) to some form of error correction data.

You sure do have a funny definition of "most people".

Re:Well

[WED Fan]

I find I'm "skipping a generation" in many technologies: Operating systems

So you went from ME to Vista? Sap!

Re:Off-site backup?

[Gilmoure]

8' thick slab of granite, with letters laser cut through. This is then sealed in the middle of 30' of non-reactive UV resistant clear polymer. This cube is then set on top of a mountain on the south pole of the moon, aligned so that the sun only strikes it once every 240 earth days, shining through and then having flaming letters 300' high show up on the shadowed wall of crater Faustinni.

Re:The RIAA most like this

[Voyager529]

Soon I may put all relevant music ever made onto a single disk. Internet filters wont have much effect then.

That still fits on a single CD-R.

Re:GE

[RDW]

'Besides, GE has no link that I'm aware of to the DeLorean Motor Company that I'm aware of.'

Can't see it on the company chart, but I think it fits in somewhere between the Sheinhardt Wig Company ('Not Poisoning Rivers Since 1997') and AHP Chanagi Party Meats of Pyongyang, N. Korea:

http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/images/placeholder/GE_OrgChart.jpg [nbc.com]

http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/exclusives/30R_GEWigChart.pdf [nbc.com]

A 1-TerrorByte, HorrorGraphic optical disk?

[Anonymous Coward]

Quick, someone inform the Crypt Keeper! He'll want to use these for the horror-rez versions of his deceasing sets ...