HVD discs now boast 3.9 Terabyte capacity (1 Viewer)

[Collin]

Shit, the last time I heard about these discs 9 months ago was that they only boasted around 150GB capacity in dual-layer format.

We have had the HD-DVD camp (Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, HP, Intel) etc. warring against the Blu-Ray camp (Sony, Apple, Dell, Hitachi, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, TDK etc.) for a few years now over which should be the 'legitimate' successor to the current DVD format. The third relatively low-key format, HVD.. currently only promoted as a corporate solution (unless you're a consumer with a tree which grows money), costs around US$15,000 for a burner and US$120 per disc. The technology uses hologram technology, and is physically the same size as the current DVD discs. Transfer rate is currently 1Gigabit/sec.

HD-DVDs discs have a capacity of 15GB single layer.
Blu-ray discs have a capacity of 25GB single layer.
HVD currently boasts a potential of 3900GB.. hmm.

 

[AntiHyper]

I'm sure the normal DVD should last a long way from now still.

The disc may have one or two sides, and one or two layers of data per side; the number of sides and layers determines the disc capacity.

* DVD-5: single sided, single layer, 4.7 gigabytes (GB), or 4.38 gibibytes (GiB)
* DVD-9: single sided, double layer, 8.5 GB (7.92 GiB)
* DVD-10: double sided, single layer on both sides, 9.4 GB (8.75 GiB)
* DVD-14: double sided, double layer on one side, single layer on other, 13.3 GB (12.3 GiB)
* DVD-18: double sided, double layer on both sides, 17.1 GB (15.9 GiB)

lol @ Dual sided, dual layered. so each disc contains 4 layers :O thats awesome.

Imagine if the current HVD does that. Dual sided and dual layered.

This too "Paper Disc" as a co-released Bluray Disc. I find it intriguing.

 

[SashatheMan]

heres what wiki has to say about them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

 

[Collin]

Conventional DVDs will last as long as the new generation discs and burners stay high-priced and inaccessible.

I gotta admit I'm not a fan of dual-sided discs though (DVDs). But a dual-sided & layered HVD would be pretty mind-blowing.

 

[Templar]

I personally don't like dual layer instead. There's always the possibility of it splitting between the layers if abused.

On another note, perpendicular hard disks are out. Looking forward to seeing 1TB on a single disk soon, at a reasonable price.