Hot Damn! HVD?

A new type of recordable media will be making its debut in 2007. HVD will kick the shit out of Blu-Ray and punch HD-DVD in the cunt.

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Before you plan on replacing your DVD collection, know this: Optware doesn't expect to have HVD on the market for consumers until 2007 at the earliest, with players selling for under $3,000. You'll get your money's worth, though. The discs will hold between 100GB and up to one terabyte of data on a standard five-inch disc (the same size as a DVD) and support a data rate of up to one gigabit per second.

How does it work? Well, standard optical discs store data in a linear string of dots, each dot containing 1 bit of information, read by a laser beam. Optware's technology splits the signal laser beam into 1 million narrower beams to create data pages. This writes data in three dimensions, allowing for one million bits of information can be stored in each dot.

Optware's holographic recording technology stores data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes. Optware uses a holographic technology that combines multiple lasers needed to create a three-dimensional hologram into a single laser beam. The company also has a new servo system that allows for a smaller pickup size, allowing for compatibility with DVD and CD discs.

HVD reads and writes data at over 10kb with a single flash of the laser, and it can read and write in parallel, something optical discs can't do. Also, HVD discs don't need to spin like DVD discs, since the laser moves, rather than being held in place and having the disc spin under it.