G.E. has recently announced laboratory success in holographic storage discs that could hold ~500 GB. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=2.
It’ll be a good three years or so until the technology is commercially available, and then probably only to high-end consumers like movie studios and medical imaging facilities. Those places eat up storage.
But could you imagine the Playstation 4 built around holographic storage? Games could have even more cut scenes! They could last for years!
I’m not sure how movies will be affected. I mean, I can barely tell the difference between Blu-ray and good DVD. How much better resolution will we be able to see? But then, by the time the holodiscs are available for home distribution, I could probably afford a new 100’’ TV the way the prices have been dropping and the tech has been improving.
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