The future is coming...blueray tech is obsolete already?

BattleAxe · Mar 16, 2007, 05:38 AM

I found some of this fascinating info on the wiki and the web.

let me quote:

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Stabilizing ferroelectric materials

New method of stabilization in the nano-scale

Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University and his research colleagues and the University of Pennsylvania have proposed a new mechanism stabilizing the ferroelectricity in the nano-scale by surrounding the charged material with fragments of water. Spanier and his colleagues found that molecules such as hydroxyl (OH) ions, and organic molecules, such as carboxyl (COOH), work even better than metal electrodes at stabilizing ferroelectricity in nano-scaled materials.

Possible practical applications

The most obvious and useful application of ferrolectric technology lies in mass storage of digital information (Ferroelectric RAM). Although the technology is still in early stages of research, it would provide numerous advantages over current (and future) alternative storage medias:

* Minute size
* No moving parts
* Does not require a power source (non-volatile) to retain charge (an advantage over conventional RAM)
* Vastly superior data density
* Storage capacities theoretically larger by order(s) of magnitude (petabytes as opposed to giga/terabytes)
* High speed transfers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabili...tric_materials

Holographic Versatile Disc

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Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology still in the research stage which would hold up to 3.9 terabytes (TB) of information. It employs a technique known as collinear holography, whereby two lasers, one red and one blue-green, are collimated in a single beam.

Storage capacity in context

It has been estimated that the books in the U.S. Library of Congress, one of the largest libraries in the world, would contain a total of about 20 terabytes if scanned in text format (4,000 terabytes if converted into Microsoft Word format). Not including images from the books, the content could be stored with capacity to spare on six 3.9 TB discs.

At 15 meter resolution and 32-bit color (about the resolution found in unpopulated areas on Google Earth), a map of the land masses of Earth would occupy just over 2 TB. Using MPEG4 ASP encoding, a 3.9 TB HVD could hold between 4,600–11,900 hours of video—just over one year of uninterrupted video at usual encoding rates.[1] Using typical satellite radio encoding (CT-aacPlus at 40 kbps), a 3.9 TB HVD could hold over 26.5 years of uninterrupted stereo audio.

The transfer rate is at an average of 1 gigabit/second, or 1024 megabits/second, around 6 times the transfer rate for current 16x DVD storage.

Now you probably ask, what the hell this have to do with computers or multimedia or why does it matter now?

well read on:

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Ultra High Definition Video
Super Hi-Vision, also known as Ultra High Definition Video or UHDV and UHD is a digital video format, currently proposed by NHK of Japan.

The new format with a resolution of 7,680 × 4,320 pixels is four times as wide and four times as high (for a total of 16 times the pixel resolution) as existing HDTV, which has a maximum resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels.
Because this format is highly experimental, NHK researchers had to build their own prototype from scratch. In the system demonstrated in September 2003 they used an array of 16 HDTV recorders to capture the 18-minute-long test footage.
The camera itself was built with four 2.5 inch (64 mm) CCDs with a combined resolution of only 3840 × 2048. They then resort to pixel shifting to bring it to 7680 × 4320.[1]

Capacity

Eighteen minutes of uncompressed UHDV footage consumes 3.5 terabytes of data and one minute of footage consumes 194 gigabytes (2 hours of full length movie will use roughly 25 terabytes of storage). If 1920×1080p60 high definition video has a bitrate of 60 Mbit/s using current MPEG-2 compression technologies, then four times the width and four times the height will roughly require 16 times the bitrate, which translates to 100 GB for 18 minutes of UHDV, or 6 GB per minute if MPEG-2 video compression was used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_H...finition_Video
Now, this is spanking, if you ask me, too bad I can't download and watch the "demo" (LOL) which was 3.5 Terrabytes long.
Sorry, don't have the hard drive space ATM.

So, what do you think? Are we getting to those see-through montiors and fingering around the screen in that Tom Cruise movie "Minority Report"?

Or are we going to be buying a house, of one of Its walls is dedicated to a 606993x 49493 resolution super-HD-Blue Gamma ray TV, that will be so sharp that I can count the zits of Spiderman from 200 feet away?

Judas · Mar 16, 2007, 06:02 PM

lol..

i'd love to witness what that 7680x4320 footage looked like...

**kris23** · Mar 17, 2007, 12:16 AM

lol i wonder what those ps3 humping fanboys think of their shiny new console now?

lol im in an odd mood today

RoyBatty · Mar 17, 2007, 12:32 AM

Imagine that you burn 4 TB to the HVD disc, than one accidental scratch and everything is gone. I hope they will develop some protective cartridges for these discs.

Judas · Mar 18, 2007, 12:07 AM

it'll be no different then the worry that everyone was concerned with when CD to DVD data theories excisted.

It'll happen, but if a disk is kept and handle well, shouldn't be a concern.

As long as they don't ever create a disk like the floppies, where even removing the disk properly could forever damage them.

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RoyBatty HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Czech Republic Posts: 1,941 Rep Power: 122 System Specs	Imagine that you burn 4 TB to the HVD disc, than one accidental scratch and everything is gone. I hope they will develop some protective cartridges for these discs.