Holographic Versatile Card

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Holographic Versatile Card
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Holographic Versatile Card

The Holographic Versatile Card (HVC) is a data storage format proposed by Optware; the company's projected release date for a Japanese launch is late 2006. They claim it will hold 30GB of data, have a write speed 3 times faster than Blue Ray, and be approximately the size of a credit card. At release, the media will cost about ¥100 (roughly $1) each, reader devices are set to cost about ¥200,000(roughly $2000) while reader/writer devices are to cost ¥1 000,000 (roughly $8000) each.[1]

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  1. ^ Nezu, Tadashi. "Story at NikkeiBP", Nikkei Business Productions, 2005, June 8.

[edit] External links

  • Optware Creator of HVC format.
  • Engadget News report on the Holographic Versatile Card
  • Über Gizmo News report on the Holographic Versatile Card