Our buddies over at Optware are coming yet closer to bringing a HVD product to market. A company called "Ecma" is now working with them to standardize three media types: Holographic Versatile Disc cartridges (200GB), read-only Holographic Versatile Discs (100GB), and Holographic Versatile Cards (30GB). Needless to say, I'm excited to see holographic storage finally become a reality. If you'd like to read more of TechJapan's coverage of Optware's holographic storage media, click the Optware logo appearing to the right of this text. Otherwise, click the image below for the English press release.

Uncork those bottles of champagne, because Optware announced o­n the 7th that they will receive about 360,000,000 yen in investments from 6 companies including Matsushita Electric Industries and FujiFilm.

Who is Optware? You may remember our article from a couple months ago. Or you may not.
Long story short, Optware is developing technology to store approximately 1TB of data o­n a holographic disc.

Shit, 1TB of video? Sign me up.
Optware appears to be a pioneer of holographic storage technology. Good o­n them.

Why, with a 1TB storage capacity o­n a 12cm disc, that's about 11 gigabytes per square centimeter. Good.