From almost 2 years ago
[quote - 4/2009]
General Electric researchers announced today that the company has made a breakthrough in the development of microholographic storage discs for mainstream use. Using G.E.'s current technology, a single holographic disc could ostensibly hold 500 gigabytes of data -- about 100 times the size of a standard DVD -- and still be readable. Better still, these discs should be commercially viable when they're introduced in 2011 or 2012, coming in at around 10 cents per gigabyte (a pittance compared to Blu-ray's initial price of $1 per gigabyte).
Just in time for Wii2 late 2011/2012
but in all seriousness, $0.10 per GB x 500GB = $50 a disc
I don't see that being reasonable even if it was a mini-HVD coming in at around 125GB and $10 a disc.
also GE isn't on the HVD collective that Sony is(according to wiki), so I wonder which standard this product would go by.
and a full HVD format probably won't be seen until the industry is ready to bring 4k home, and I don't see that happening anytime soon considering most theaters probably haven't even gotten on board yet and studios probably aren't shooting in it yet either.
SO we still have no idea what is up with HVD, nor do we have any idea what is up with the InPhase/Nintendo standard alternative is either.
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The most storage I see a Wii 2 game having is 15 to 20 GBs or more if a third party decides to have more. If the HVD discs cost ten cents per unit then there is no reason for why it should be expensive.
Honestly, storage medium is one reason why I am very fascinated with what the Wii 2 will offer. I do not see them retaining their current DVD setup, and for a long time I thought Nintendo would adopt HD-DVD simply because it might be cheap for them and harder to pirate (not so much). Then I realized that they could modfiy the current DVD to hold a maximum of about 15 to 25 GB a piece. Then I though that perhaps Nintendo should return to cartridges for their home console but realized that it might not be cost effective to have large capacity cartridges.
http://www.tech-faq.com/hvd.html