New Tech Can Shrink Your DVD Collection

Posted by Matt Little , Apr, 2009 @ 9:47 am

If G.E. is successful, get ready to have your media collection take up less physical space than your actual media players.

According to this article in the New York Times, Shinehart-General Electric has been successful in creating a disc that has the capacity of 100 DVDs. Using holographic technology, scientists have been able to store images on a disc in three dimensions, so soon Will.I.Am won’t be the only hologram.

That’s an embarrassing amount of storage, around half a terrabyte. This bodes well for the future of High Definition media production, and is especially encouraging to a TV nerd like me, being able to collapse high quality versions of an entire television series on a single disc.

The technology is still in the lab, but if it goes commercial, you’re going to have to find new ways to clutter your home. Might I suggest taking up the fabled art of collecting busts?

Also, a moment of silence please for the real losers in the march toward smaller physical storage space: bookshelf and cabinet makers. Those poor guys.

G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc [New York Times]

Tags: breakthrough, dvd, general electric, holographic, technology