University of Central Florida develops a new high capacity DVD capable of holding up to one terabyte.
A new, high capacity DVD capable of holding up to one terabyte of data could result from the work of a team of researchers at the University of Central Florida.
The new DVD technology, developed by UCF chemistry professor Kevin Belfield and others, is known as "two photon 3-D optical data storage."
The new disc technology could be commercially available in a couple of years, Befield said recently. The first users will likely be government and military agencies with a need to archive massive databases, he said.
New, expanded versions of popular video games are another candidate for the new technology, which can hold about 20 times as much information as today's state-of-the-art DVDs.
Belfield's team has filed for a patent on the new DVDs, which can have data burned onto them many times. The National Science Foundation has awarded the UCF researchers a $270,000, three-year grant to continue development of the technology.
