Terabyte DVDs

By Jim on September 29th, 2004

Imperial College London researchers in the UK are developing a new way of storing data that could lead to discs capable of holding 1,000 gigabytes.

It means that every episode of The Simpsons could fit on a disc the size of a normal DVD.

Lecturer Dr Peter Torok revealed the technique called Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods) at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan.

I can think of certain series I’d like to buy on one DVD (I’ll pass on the Simpsons, I prefer South Park) rather than having a bunch of individual discs. For example, I started buying the original Stark Trek on DVD but there are just way too many discs to store.

The storage space in my living room for DVDs is limited so I don’t want to have to store 50 individual discs or whatever. With this technology I could just buy every episode ever released on one or two discs. Amazing! :shock:

Too bad we’re going to have to wait five years or so. Man, that stinks.