Guess What? Blu-ray Is Obsolete Already

by Rich Menga on Apr 29, 2009 | 7 comments

You probably think Blu-ray is the latest, greatest, up-to-datest thing in optical tech right now. You probably think, "Wow! 25 gigs on a single disc! Great!"

What if I told you there’s a disc that can hold 20 times that amount to the tune of 500GB?

Enter the GE holographic disc. Yes, it sounds like something straight out of Star Trek, but it’s real. No, you can’t get it right now, but you will eventually.

The largest difference between the way data is written to the disc is that it can be written under the surface, whereas all discs now is top layer only.

Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself.

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http://www.twitter.com/AndrewPearce Drew
I think saying it’s obsolete is a bit far fetched. As it only recently won the HD format war, it’ll be a few years before it’s actually done and dusted.
There’s always a new tech ready to replace something else, but until it goes mainstream and becomes standard, I think it’s safe to say Blu-ray will be here to stay for a long while yet

http://www.menga.net Rich Menga
Blu-ray won’t go away overnight, no question – however the holographic disc is not just another next-gen tech introduction. This is the first optical disc we’ll have as consumers (hopefully) that actually goes beyond the surface, literally. I sincerely hope GE really pushes this and sends top-layer-only optical media to its grave. You know as well as I that I can’t stand optical media in its current state, even with Blu-ray. It’s about time a company introduced something better.

Udo Werner
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SupaChalupa
Yeah but with current disk drives reading a 500 GB disk would take a while, not to mention most home computers would choke on that much data.

MartYn
But its all relative to when this mega disc is released to the general public and we all have hardware that can support it. By then we might all have 10TB hard drives and it won’t seem like such a big deal.

http://none David M
I better go throw my player in the trash. Next week the stores stop selling the disks because its “obsolete” now.
perkster
optical is all dead, the way SSD and flash disks are going, rise of netbooks without optical drives, music and movies by download instead of buying discs.