Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)

[MACCA350]

Think that the new HD-DVD and Blue-ray are the ducks-nuts, the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is getting closer and is set to dwarf both formats. Imagine a media that could store up to 3.9 terabytes (TB, yes thats Bytes not bits) with a transfer rate of 1 Gbit/s.

Given that the uncompressed studio masters for HD Movies are over 1TB this format could potentially give the consumer a product that has never seen any form of compression for both video and audio.

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[racquetman]

Sorry, but if you think a studio is going to release an uncompressed version of a movie on a disc that someone can easily pirate, well, ya you guessed it - you're smokin' crack!!

Storage is not an issue for movie studios at this point. They don't want you to have their best product. They want to slowly increase the quality of their product so you have to buy the same product over and over again.

HVD may have an application in data storage, but don't look for them to cause any impact in the home video market. Of course this is all just my opinion .

 

[outsider]

I am also of the belief that HVD will come along and knock Blu-Ray and HD-DVD out, but I doubt it will be in the very near future.

alandamp has a good point though-the movie studios don't want the consumer to have the best quality.

The nice thing about HVD is that it can be universal. There are no large marketing campaigns built around it. There are no large corporations flexing their muscles, trying to gain footing over the others.

 

[MACCA350]

Apparently they are releasing a 300GB version late this year.

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[BMXTRIX]

The nice thing about HVD is that it can be universal. There are no large marketing campaigns built around it. There are no large corporations flexing their muscles, trying to gain footing over the others.

This is the heart and soul of the problem with many wannbe formats. While HVD has a ton of potential, what's the point if there are no major players? You gotta have companies that have the ability for serious market penetration pushing a format or else it likely won't do so well. So, while it may best Blu-ray or HD-DVD for data storage only, no movie studios will support it - so forget about movies being released. Software is already switching to entirely downloadable, the rest is delivered on CD or DVD which tends to be more than enough room for the data...

So, what's the point? More data, faster transfer rates... perfect for data backup... If it is far more reliable than tape. I already have a company who has no interest in us using optical or hard drive backups due to reliability of the media format compared to tape. But, that's about the main market that I can see for HVD.

Unless they somehow do get costs of product way down and are able to lure some serious names to the table I would call it a long term future data archival format. Not the 'next' big thing.

But, hey, I could be wrong.

 

[MACCA350]

Data storage and archive is where this format is headed, at least for now.

But it's quite possible that once it has penetrated that market it could prove itself to be a reliable product and price and production may become viable for an audio visual medium. By then movie studios could be on the lookout for another format to sell consumers yet another version of their movies(and that is what they love to do)

I really doubt that a 3.9TB disc would be ignored for to long, even a 1.6TB disc, especially when it has similar physical characteristics to current disc media.

But this is all speculation

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BTW.

So, what's the point? More data, faster transfer rates...

Wasn't that the whole point of Blue-ray?

 

[JAD2]

But this is all speculation

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BTW.Wasn't that the whole point of Blue-ray?

I cant see how some people here can say this wouldnt fly.

Blue-Ray/HD-DVD wasnt soley brought to be on the premise of movies, movies is and offshoot.

Data storage- For computer users- Big buying sector
Fuji Film backs it- That brings in more using it to store pictures
Gamers- Being able to hold large complex games and saving them without worrying about a hard drive failure.
Movies- You could compress movies and lock them the same way there attempting now. But add the point if its writable which it has to be, holding daily days and days worth of TV programming when on vacation and anything along the likes, something you cant do now. Holding many movies along the same topic lines, instead of having multiple discs taking up space!!

I added this a few days ago to the HD-Blueray demise before it starts thread. I was given links months ago from a co-worker about this HVD, it promises much more than both the HD camps have and it would appeal much more to a larger market. So what if major movie marketers arent on board yet, they will be!!!

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Sounds like a good transport medium for UDTV/4K films, which would be used in a commercial theater, and not the home market.