Originally Posted by clickwir
Why is anyone even considering BluRay or HDDVD when Holographic discs are already here. Sure they cost a lot, but if all these companies that are "backing" these 2 new useless dvd formats donated some money to R&D and manufactuing, it'd be down to dvd costs in no time.
In other words, why all this hub-uub about BluRay and HDDVD that max out at 30GB when we have holographic discs that start at 515GB and will soon be scaled up to much much more within 2 years?
That's HD-DVD maxing out that low. 30GB is a single layer of Blu-ray, and it looks to scale up to 200 without a real problem.
And for $15,000 for a holographic reader, and at $120 a disc, it will be a ways off before we need that.
And Blu-Ray is just as open as HD-DVD, if not moreso. I have no desire for a MS OS to be on my DVD player, and I prefer Sony's use of Java significantly.