Japanese company Optware will commercialize an optical disc that can store more than 1 terabyte of data, and an associated disc player, later this year, the company said earlier this week.

The disc and player are based on a 5-inch optical disc like existing CDs and DVDs, but the new disc will be able to store about 120 DVD-format movies, according to Atsushi Machida, a spokesman for Optware.

The high capacity--around 20 times the storage available on existing discs--and a data transfer speed of 1 gigabit per second have been achieved by using digital volume holography read/write technology, developed under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) in the United States, according to Optware's statement

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Those cah-razy Japanese :)

I love them :)

They really know how to take this that step to far to soon.

Its never too soon for stuff like this. Now lets see every MP3 in the world available on 3 disks.

You could probably fit all legally released MP3's on one normal CD :p

I bet its extremely volatile to damage..

Crap, what just happened to that Sony Blue Disk thingy, that was only like 1 week ago. Eh doesn\'t bother me!

"Sony Blue Disk", phhhh, your living in the past, quit living in the past!
:)

k thnx for the info :)

Only bad thing is because they are so damn big, one could trust all their data to one.

If it got scratched, you = f***ed.

Sony blue disk seemed like a repackaging of DVD\'s to me, comparable storage capacity but in a much more proprietary format.

Good to see the fluoro disks being mentioned again (thats what this article is about i think), they really seemed like a good idea. Terabyte storage is really the next step, remember how when cd\'s first came out (for use in computers) everyone thought they wouldn\'t be copied because 650meg was SOOO big? Terabyte disks seem like the same thing now but i\'m sure in 10 years or so i\'ll bet everyone will have a writer for one.