Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)

Hundred movies on an optical disc? That's the goal of the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance.
Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and with a transfer speed of over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.
HVD is a possible successor to technologies such as Blu-ray and HD DVD. Single layer Blu-ray discs hold about 25GB of data while Dual-Layer discs can contain 50GB. DVD discs, meanwhile, hold up to 8.5GB. HVD technology will be pitched at corporations and the entertainment market, the HVD Alliance said.