Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

Am 11 Aug 2004 16:38 meinte ben franchuk: Just seen a feature about that on public TV. It seams like they are comeing along with it. There's a team at the University of Stuttgart which recently developed a way forfine controll of the laser light to address the storage without huge high precicion mirror systems. I couldn't find a web reference, but according to the report tey are now able to dynamicly controll the beam and thus can read the desired page even if the cube has moved or is in a less than perfect fitting. Also you no longer need an optical bank and the beam length of more than a meter, the new system can be already fitted in a case the size of a classic 5.25 drive (full height) with an exchangeable holographic media of 1cm^3 size and about a Terra Byte of storage capacity. Main drawback is still the cost for the holographic media. Targetet date for real world applications is arround 2008. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 6.0 am 30.April und 01.Mai 2005 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/