Welcome to the Holographic Versatile Disk Industry Blog

Welcome to the Holographic Versatile Disk HVD Industry Blog.
The Plugtek.com welcomes you to the ongoing advancements
of the Holographic Media industry. Soon there will be HVD computer storage that will fit 500,000 300 page books,
63 times the size of a DVD, 6 days of continual televsion recording... All on ONE Disk! the size of the previous PC floppies.

Maxell Holographic Storage 300GB by September 2006

Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of 160Mbps.

Holographic storage works by storing information using light-sensitive crystals. Because it uses the whole volume of the disk, not just the surface, it's possible to store much more information than is possible on a DVD. For example, an HVD can store approximately half a million 300-page books on a single disc.

With a single holographic disk able to store 1.6 million high-resolution colour photos or over 240 hours of TV broadcast, holographic storage is starting to draw the attention of many in the IT industry.