KM wrote:well, you'd think it looks like advanced expensive techology that will take ages and be expensive... but didn't people say the same about CD's? and then again about DVD's? and especially a DVDRW drive, no way you'd get them for less than £500 before 2010...
Yeah they did. They also said it about those huge (20") optical video discs (pre-CD) and they were right about that one. They also said nobody would want to spend money on mini-disc cos they already had CD players. They were largely right about that too. Folks aren't always wrong. They may or may not be wrong this time. We'll just have to wait and see.
Holography uses multiple lasers in different orientations. That means that this gadget is going to be rather different to existing optical storage devices. I imagine these devices are going to be pretty bulky initially so they'll have to be shrunk down some before production models can be made cheaply and before they'll become attractive to PC owners who want something they can stick in a spare drive bay in the front of their box.
As for the rate at which prices fall, well, I still can't afford to spare the money needed for a DVD burner. When one of my existing optical drives packs up, I'll consider it.