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G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc

Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times

General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.

Brian Lawrence leads G.E.’s holographic storage program.

The storage advance, which G.E. is announcing on Monday, is just a laboratory success at this stage. The new technology must be made to work in products that can be mass-produced at affordable prices.

But optical storage experts and industry analysts who were told of the development said it held the promise of being a big step forward in digital storage with a wide range of potential uses in commercial, scientific and consumer markets.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=1&ref=technology