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Strider - 29 Sep 2004 10:28 GMT

"Future DVDs could hold 100 times more information than current discs.

Imperial College London researchers in the UK are developing a new way
of storing data that could lead to discs capable of holding 1,000
gigabytes."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3696306.stm

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Mike Barnard - 29 Sep 2004 11:49 GMT

>"Future DVDs could hold 100 times more information than current discs.
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3696306.stm

I hope they make disks that don't degrade over time like many do
today. Imagine losing a terabyte of data!

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Strider - 29 Sep 2004 11:53 GMT

In the bedlam that is alt.games.half-life

Mike Barnard proclaimed...

> I hope they make disks that don't degrade over time like many do
> today. Imagine losing a terabyte of data!

That's an awful lot of po..

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Work related files...

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Fred Scharmann - 29 Sep 2004 11:58 GMT

The size of Half-Life II will probably require a disk that size!

> "Future DVDs could hold 100 times more information than current discs.
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Tom Brown - 29 Sep 2004 16:10 GMT

> "Future DVDs could hold 100 times more information than current discs.
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Big deal. I'm still waiting for stores to stock dual-layer DVD's. Hard to
get too excited about 1,000 gigs when I can't even get a 9 gig blank DVD...

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