Turner Network Television airs commercial from holographic storage device

Iria · Nov 14, 2005, 03:49 PM

Westlake Village (CA) - Holographic storage devices are still a year from being available to consumers, but a major broadcaster has already started playing around with the drives. Turner Network Television (TNT) recently aired a commercial from an InPhase Tapestry drive. Hitachi Maxell, an InPhase partner, built the drive which can write 300 GByte to a single disk.

Storage technologies often get a workout in the broadcasting business before going to consumers. "This was done to investigate the feasibility of using holographic storage for broadcasting television content," says Ron Tarasoff, vice president of broadcast technology and engineering at Turner Entertainment Networks.

The Tapestry drives can record 300 GByte at 160 Mbit per second. Future drives will scale to 1.6 TByte at 960 Mbit per second. This week, InPhase will publicly demonstrate the Tapestry drive at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition.

So far, TNT is the only broadcast user to try out the new holographic drives.
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Source: TG Daily

Judas · Nov 14, 2005, 04:23 PM

i'd have to say good news

Nov 14, 2005, 03:49 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 74	Turner Network Television airs commercial from holographic storage device Westlake Village (CA) - Holographic storage devices are still a year from being available to consumers, but a major broadcaster has already started playing around with the drives. Turner Network Television (TNT) recently aired a commercial from an InPhase Tapestry drive. Hitachi Maxell, an InPhase partner, built the drive which can write 300 GByte to a single disk. Storage technologies often get a workout in the broadcasting business before going to consumers. "This was done to investigate the feasibility of using holographic storage for broadcasting television content," says Ron Tarasoff, vice president of broadcast technology and engineering at Turner Entertainment Networks. The Tapestry drives can record 300 GByte at 160 Mbit per second. Future drives will scale to 1.6 TByte at 960 Mbit per second. This week, InPhase will publicly demonstrate the Tapestry drive at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition. So far, TNT is the only broadcast user to try out the new holographic drives. ____________ Source: TG Daily