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1.5 terabyte DVD on way -- 2010 target date (Well there is some Engineering to be done! )
The INQUIRER ^ | Monday 23 December 2002, 08:02 | INQUIRER staff:

Posted on 12/24/2002 10:13:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

JAPANESE WIRE the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that a coalition of academics and electronics combine are designing an optical disk that will eventually be able to store 1.5TB (terabytes) of data.

Although we're unlikely to see such devices until 2010, the consortium, which includes Matsushita, Ricoh, Pioneer, Mitsubishi, and three universities, is plunging $25 million into an R&D project which will start in Spring of 2003.

Reports said that optical disk will use "3D" optical technology likely to use a technique which stores the data in multiple layers.

It will also be backwards compatible with standard DVDs, the reports said, with its storage ability equivalent to around 300 DVDs using the current format. µ

* BY 2010, according to senior Intel architects, a CPU will have processing power equivalent to the brain of a bumble bee.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Technical
KEYWORDS: computing; storage; techindex
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1 posted on 12/24/2002 10:13:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: *tech_index; Sparta; Mathlete; grundle; beckett; billorites; One More Time; Dominic Harr; ...
What can we do with 1.5 Terabyte on a CD?

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

2 posted on 12/24/2002 10:14:32 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thank you keeping track of this stuff. Merry Christmas and God Bless you.
3 posted on 12/24/2002 10:16:20 PM PST by Sparta
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...and we'll all still be using 1.5Mbps cable modems that can send the contents of the DVD to another user in just six months!
4 posted on 12/24/2002 10:17:37 PM PST by Timesink
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To: Timesink
LOL !..Ya beat me to it....I was trying to figure it at a 56K dialup speed.

Merry New Year Timesink !~.........Stay Safe !

5 posted on 12/24/2002 10:27:54 PM PST by Squantos
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To: Timesink; Squantos
I guess it is back to Snail Mail!
6 posted on 12/24/2002 10:30:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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By the way I came across this at slashdot.com!
7 posted on 12/24/2002 10:31:32 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This says pirated databases and pirated hi-tech research to me. Stolen and sold to the highest bidder and to real bad guys. Just my speculation..... I don't know much about databases.
8 posted on 12/24/2002 10:33:01 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I suspect we'll always be under the oppressive thumb of technology Ernest :o)

You have a Safe and Merry Holiday Ernest !!

9 posted on 12/24/2002 10:45:17 PM PST by Squantos
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Might just be able to keep nearly a full record of women Clinton fooled around with and a list of all known crimes of the Democrat party in the state of Rhode Island.
10 posted on 12/24/2002 10:50:56 PM PST by A CA Guy
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To: A CA Guy
Very good, I just knew some bright freeper would see a good use for such an incredible invention!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

11 posted on 12/24/2002 10:55:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Squantos
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours - Squantos!
12 posted on 12/24/2002 10:55:55 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What can we do with 1.5 Terabyte on a CD?

Hmmm, that might be just enough room for the New Special Extended Extended Extended Version of the complete set of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy due out about that time.

Of course, we would need a second 1.5 TB DVD just for the additional special features. :-)

13 posted on 12/25/2002 12:06:20 AM PST by JameRetief
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I could use a 1 TB DVD-R for backups. 48X write speed please. Hard disks with capacities of 40 GB and more are difficult to backup.
14 posted on 12/25/2002 2:22:47 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I bet the napsterites are absolutely drooling..
15 posted on 12/25/2002 2:31:51 AM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Teleport System on way -- target date 2015 (some engineering required here too, but prove me wrong).
16 posted on 12/25/2002 3:20:00 AM PST by droberts
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
* BY 2010, according to senior Intel architects, a CPU will have processing power equivalent to the brain of a bumble bee.

Or a liberal Democrat.

Some think the successor to DVDs (and hard drives) will be crystals. Already working on them.

17 posted on 12/25/2002 4:09:05 AM PST by KeyWest
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
There's already a use for an optical disc that can store this much data: the medium for showing movies in theaters that use digital projectors.

Imagine instead of shipping 210 pounds of 35 mm film or 25-30 pounds of hard disk drives for a single two-hour movie, the whole digital-projection quality movie fits on a DVD-sized disc that weighs at most 2 pounds for the shipping package, and the disc will include seven different languages for dialogue and another seven languages on subtitles!

18 posted on 12/25/2002 4:27:55 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What can we do with 1.5 Terabyte on a CD?

With two of them, you'll be able to install Windows 2010.

19 posted on 12/25/2002 4:40:32 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
BY 2010, according to senior Intel architects, a CPU will have processing power equivalent to the brain of a bumble bee.

....and the Democrat Party will be in favor of giving it voting rights.

20 posted on 12/25/2002 5:05:26 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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