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GIZMODO!

They won with an article titled “HD DVD and Blu-Ray Already Outdated?”
Not everyone might find that funny but, as a tech-blog reader and tech enthusiast, I found it hilarious.

HD DVD and Blu-Ray had been the number one argument a few months back and lasted quite awhile. “Which technology is better? HD DVD or Blu-Ray?” Both were are similar to regular optical disc like CDs and DVDs but they can hold much more information. ANYWAYS, the article is about HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc), a technology 20 years in the making. Current HVDs can hold 3.9 terabytes of information. That’s about 4000 gigabytes, ridiculous, I know. It also sports a very high data transfer rate so you wouldn’t have to wait forever for your computer access the information on the disc. In summary, holograms are kick ass.

Perspective:
The entire US Library of Congress could be held (minus images) on 6 discs.
At HVD’s transfer rates, you could burn an entire CD worth of music in 6 seconds.
Or you could burn a full DVD in 38 seconds.
One HVD can hold 820 of your favorite DVDs.

I think you get the picture.

Update:
When I said it can hold 3.9 terabytes I meant it has the capacity to hold that much information. Currently the company Optware is saying that they will have a 200GB disc out by the end of 2006, and yet other companies project a 1.6TB disc out by 2010. These discs would be for the average user. I think that the larger capacity discs would be similar to the 4.7GB DVD+/-R and the regular 8-someGB DVD for movies and games. The smaller being for the user end, the larger for sales and “non-recordability.”