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AMSTERDAM: InPhase Technologies, is set to demonstrate the world's first commercial holographic storage product - Tapestry 300-R holographic drive.
The product offers 300 gigabytes (GB) of storage, enough for more than six hours of high-definition video on a single optical disk, at high transfer rates and will ship to initial customers at the end of this year. Hitachi-Maxell, the parent company of Maxell Europe, Ltd., is both a strategic investor and a media manufacturing development partner of InPhase.
InPhase has also, separately, announced that it has signed its first original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement, with Ikegami, for an Ikegami-branded InPhase external holographic drive that will enable users of Ikegami's Editcam and Editcam HD camcorders to transfer edited or camera-original video content via FireWire or FTP interfaces to the highly stable 300 GB cartridges with all the advantages of tapeless nonlinear archiving and retrieval.
"Holographic storage enables - finally - the truly all-digital broadcast environment, and we are pleased to demonstrate to the IBC audience what this means for capture, edit, and archive of rich digital content," said Art Rancis, vice president of sales for InPhase Technologies.
InPhase also said that Pappas Telecasting, an independent television station owner, will be among the first to integrate holographic drives into their broadcast workflow.
Turner Broadcasting, in October, 2005, was the first to demonstrate play-out-to-air of a commercial from a holographic system, using the prototype of the Tapestry 300-R.
"The holographic storage era coincides with the all-HD universe that is finally starting to occur, and broadcasters are the beneficiaries of this unique technology," said Gerry Kaufhold, principal analyst with In-Stat. "As bandwidth and high-quality devices increase capacities, InPhase is positioned to aid a new, and growing, revolution in optical storage."
Click here for a review of the product by MIT Technology Review
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