Holographic card by Hitachi Maxell
Posted on 10/10/07 17:47 by geno 888                             
Holographic card by Hitachi Maxell
According to a news published at Tech-On, Hitachi Maxell demonstrated playback of music data read from HROM, a read-only medium based on the holographic recording technology at its booth at CEATEC Japan 2007.

Developed in collaboration with InPhase Technologies, leader in holographic technologies, the HROM device is still in experimental, and requires more developments (mostly to reduce costs that currently are about several dollars per piece).

This is a good news in my opinion, because means that the development of holographic storage techniques is still alive...

More details about the HROM can be found at Tech-On.
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By kate (guest), Wed 10 Oct 2007 19:55
Let's hope they don't have a dumb format war when holographic storage comes out.
By zag (guest), Thu 11 Oct 2007 14:35
Why not? A format war is good for competition. No way we want a monopoly by one company, that would be bad!
By LUF, Sat 13 Oct 2007 00:06
Well, a format war is different than a brand war. Do you really think it's a good thing that people won't know if they will still be able to find media for their drives?
By SilverBlade (guest), Sat 13 Oct 2007 04:04
If its not re-writable, its not worth it.
By kate (guest), Mon 15 Oct 2007 16:31
We're not going to have one company manufacturing ALL hardware for holographic storage. It didn't work for Betamax, didn't work for the Macintosh, and it ain't gonna work for HVD. Sony's figured this out, that's why they're licensing Blu-ray. You'd think that format competition reduces prices until you realize you want to watch movies in both formats or you need to access both to read other peoples' discs, now you have to buy multiple drives or an expensive combo drive so your savings go right out the window. Or you could stay limited to one format. It's better if companies agree to compete with one format. Just look at the current blu-ray/HD DVD mess to see what I mean. Over time, prices will go down anyway, just like they did with DVD. Format wars slow down adoption, which is bad for all formats involved and inconveniences (punishes) early adopters and makes both formats more risky because if people don't adopt soon enough both (or all three) formats die or become niche products with high price tags forever. Video disc did this in the 80s. In Phase will probably get a chunk of royalties if this takes off even if there's competing formats, situations like that are the closest you'll get to a monopoly. I won't be surprised if they put DRM on these anyway. puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke

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