Blu-Ray and HD-DVD fighting a lost battle? Holographic storage arrives sooner than you think

By Vladimir Cole

While fanboys battle it out on the importance of the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD format war, companies including Turner Entertainment Networks have already begun to move towards holographic storage. It's closer than you might think.

Early versions of holographic disk storage store up to 300GB per disk. By 2010, the disks are expected to cost $100 each and store 1.6 terabytes (that's roughly 1,600 gigabytes) each. At least one company expects to break the 1TB-per-disk barrier by 2008.

Here are some primers on holographic storage. Read up, then decide for yourself if you still believe that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are the final disk-based format we'll see this decade.

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