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PS4 Protein Coated Disc (PCD) – Blu Ray Alternative

Posted by admin on January 12, 2011 0 comments

Proposed and currently being developed by Professor Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan, PCD would greatly increase storage over Holographic Versatile Disc(HVD) optical disc systems. It involves coating an ordinary DVD with a special light-sensitive protein produced from the genetic alteration of a microbe. In theory it promises storage up to 50TB. Research with NEC in 2006 prmoised production [Read More]

PS4 Tapestry 300r – Blu Ray Alternative

Posted by admin on December 30, 2010 0 comments

Developed by a company called Inphase Technologies, it also uses holographic storage. The tapestry 300r is the world’s first commercial holographic storage drive. It has a storage capacity of 200GB and a 20Mb/s read/write rate. The future models promise further more storage capacity, with the tapestry 800r and tapestry 1600r promising 800GB and 1.6TB of [Read More]