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| 800 Gigabyte DVD's on the way from Iomega? |
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 21:55 by Laurence Norah |
Iomega have filed a patent which may allow the development of DVD's with storage capacities up to 100 times greater than current DVD's. The new technolgy uses nano-technology to encode data onto the surface of a DVD, and is known as Articulated Optical DVD, or AO-DVD.
Iomega intends to file several patents covering the use of nano-technology in optical data storage, of which this is the first. Fred Thomas, Chief Technologist of Research and Development at Iomega Corporation had the following to say about the new technology:
Subwavelength optical data storage can provide an array of mechanisms by which the state of a focused spot of light upon reflection can be precisely changed. This is the key to new commercially interesting multi-level optical data storage that this technology represents. The nano-replication technologies that are used to fabricate these structures at low-cost are just emerging from various labs. I believe the scope of Iomega patents issued and pending in this area, in conjunction with these exciting new nano-replication technologies, will make this a fertile area for optical data storage development and innovation for years to come. As high definition content becomes more pervasive, Iomega sees significant technology partnership and licensing opportunities for this intellectual property.
Whether or not Iomega will be able to get this technology to market before other technologies such as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are mainstream remains to be seen. However, 800 gigabytes on a single DVD is no mean feat, and it'll be interesting to see what Iomega do with this technology in the future.
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| We needed this last year. Also, I'd like to see the data transfer rates. Even at realistic MB transfer rates for SATA (~100 MB/S) it would take over two hours to fill a disc. At current DVD-ROM write rates (~22 MB/S) it would take more than 10 hours. |
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| Well this seems to be a good idea but blue ray and HD-DVD seem to have a huge lead on this product as well as fincial backing of more than one international company. belive this is to little to late for Iomega. I also agree with the last post they need to sort out these data transfer rates!!! |
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| you crazy, i hate nanotechnology |
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| shut up and get in the plane Mr T |
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| The author of Comment # 3 must have read 'Prey' from Michael Crichton... |
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| what about Prey? i read it .. dont remember nanotechnology mentioned..
anyway .. this wont have an impact on HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray as it wont be out until the end of the decade at the earliest. |
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