Aprilis Delivers Holographic Disk Media

Read-only holographic storage seems poised to take a step ahead on Tuesday, when Polaroid spinoff Aprilis will announce that it is providing its write-once holographic media to customers in Japan and Korea.

Aprilis, like rivals InPhase Technologies and Japan's Optware, are pushing forward on so-called holographic storage, which optically records data bits in three dimensions rather then on a flat plane. Depending upon how the bits are organized, Aprilis claims a single 12 mm CD-like disc can store between 60 to 200 GBytes.

Aprilis has begun delivering its Holographic Media Disk (HMD) media to a "major electronics player in Korea and a few in Japan", according to John Berg, president and chief executive officer of Aprilis. When the technology will enter production, however, remains unknown.

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