Holographic Rival to Blu-ray, HD-DVD

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Quote:Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first removable drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of 160mbps.

http://news.com.com/Maxell+focuses+on+ho...73868.html

When you thought you\'ve seen everything in this stupid DVD next-gen fight... here comes the HoloDVD (somewhat). Anyway I must admit those storage numbers look pretty sexy.

[joeb]

yea, up to 1.6 TB :O

[Jackeh]

ive been following this holographic storage stuff for a while.. and it looks really kewl! not to mention it has a fun name

[Big-Al]

but will it catch on?

[tomcat ha]

First time i heared about it in ages! I knew it was coming. Im afraid it will flop because its so late.

[Sgt. Boomer]

It\'ll be great for hard drive backup, especially laptops.

Make sure you check out the news story link on the bottom of the page: \"Banking on a virtual economy: Online gamer Jon Jacobs recently spent $100,000 in real-world money to buy a virtual space station. Is he nuts?\"

My vote is yes.