Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format

Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by slacka on Monday March 10, 2014 @07:43AM (#7372382)

The Holographic Versatile Disc format has existed since 2004 and can store up to 6 TB vs Archival Disc format capacity of only 300 GB - 1 TB. Any idea what advantage ADs have over HVDs?

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by taspeotis on Monday March 10, 2014 @08:09AM (#7372448)

I think the main advantage is that ADs are relatively less vaporware than HVDs [1].

> Standards for 100 GB read-only holographic discs and 200 GB recordable cartridges were published by ECMA in 2007, but no holographic disc product has appeared in the market.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by kalleboo on Monday March 10, 2014 @08:28AM (#7372520)

Did they ever manage to make those? They were announced over and over again but I don't think any products ever hit the market. Vaporware.

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