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    The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone

    Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver

    How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)

    GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs

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    Image of Sanfo Sanfo
    10/21/09

    In reply to The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone
    This technology is interesting, but its political effects scare me. Right now, portable ultrasound machines are used for sex-selective abortions in countries across the world. #gevscan
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    10/21/09

    @Sanfo: They're also used around the world for early detection of severe and debilitating deformities, some of which can even threaten the life of the mother. Making them this portable allows that to happen more easily. And in countries like China where one gender is preferred over another, if they can't know beforehand and abort it, they will often just resort to infanticide after birth anyway. #gevscan
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone
    Why do they need such a device? Doesn't the need for that belly-jelly defeat the purpose of having a portable device? #gevscan
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    10/21/09

    @Rejexted: For this device, you would have to hock up your own "gelly". #gevscan
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    10/21/09

    In reply to The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone
    Tricorder. #gevscan
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
    As noted in an earlier post, I still love my old Sony Quadraphonic system, but it only has the turntable, radio, and audio inputs...no 8 track. And (as said before), I mostly hook my iPod up to it now, so it loses its true purpose.



    We did have a sweet little "portable" 8 track player with speakers that popped out of the side. I was crushed a few years back to discover that my parents had stored all of their 8-tracks in the garage, where the Oklahoma summers had melted them into faded plastic cases filled with cooled brown ooze.



    The complete collections of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Jim Croce...gone! Gone!
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
    Love this review of the 8-Track GE Receiver. My dad still has his hooked up in his garage, with a working 8-Track player. On the downside he only has two working 8-Tracks; Santana's Abraxas (sp?) and the Hawwaii 5-0 soundtrack. I remember playing with all of the switches and dials when I was little, pretending that it was a radar station, thanx for the throwback guys!
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    07/14/09

    @goochillini: Could be worse. he could have Leonard Nimoy's version of Super Tramp stuck in there.


    Please tell me someone else got that reference.
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    07/14/09

    @TheStateOnDVD2Day_GitEmSteveDave: Unfortunately, I do know. Thanks for that horrible flashback.
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    07/14/09

    @TheCapt: The Critic wasn't that bad of a show.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
    Sound does not come from literally every direction. As everyone knows, sound only comes from speakers. Marketing brochure FAIL!
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
    Unless I'm mistaken, Quadrophenia was actually never recorded in quadrophonic sound. Hence, why your dad's copy was in stereo.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    07/14/09

    @VivianaEmu: Sounds like you're close to being right. It was recorded that way, but then mixed down into stero:



    Pete Townshend: "The whole conception of Quadrophenia was geared to quadraphonic, but in a creative sort of way. I mean I wanted themes to sort of emerge from corners. So you start to get the sense of the fourness being literally speaker for speaker. And also in the rock parts the musical thing would sort of jell together up to the thunder clap, then everything would turn slowly from quad into mono and you'd have this solid sort of rock mono ... then a thunder clap and back out again. We spent months mixing it and then found out that MCA was using the CBS quad system and ... you might as well forget it. So our engineer remixed it in the same manner that it was mixed in stereo, the same sort of creative approach."



    From here: http://www.quadrophenia.net/album/album.html
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    04/28/09

    In reply to How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)
    "Hey, how many songs can you hold on that holographic storage disk?"


    "All of them"

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/28/09

    @admoseremic:

    "Plus the entire Jerry Garcia."


    "Uh...you mean the entire Jerry Garcia discography?"


    "No, the entire Jerry Garcia, all the capacity of his burned-out brain. And version 2.x of holographic storage can add in all of Up With People."


    "Oh. Wow."


    "Of course, a floppy disk can do all that now."

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    04/28/09

    In reply to How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)

    "Data drawn through chemical reactions floats [as] if suspended in gelatin."
    So, with this new storage technology, you'll get the most massive bang-for-buck with Jello-shots?

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    Image of thejackamo thejackamo
    04/28/09

    In reply to How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)
    So if the data is stored via chemical reactions, what does that do to data degradation over time?
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    04/28/09

    @thejackamo: I think that the chemical reactions are just for "printing" the information, not stored on chemicals.


    Basically, the disc is still made of polycarbonate.

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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    04/28/09

    @SewerShark: No, I'm pretty sure the disc is actually filled with computer Jello. That wiggles. And dries up. You get about a week to keep your data.


    But I'm not sure. I didn't watch the video. But then, what else does he have those goggles for if not to protect his eyes from inevitable Jello splatter?

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    04/28/09

    @OCEntertainment: I think it started off as a transparent ooze of mindless, gelatinous monster in the shape of a 10'x10' cube. It normally lives in deep caverns, absorbing and digesting living matter. But once caught, it's sliced into neat discs but still able to absorb information until it hardens.
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    04/28/09

    In reply to How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)
    Why does it have to be "disc"?
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    04/28/09

    @ripfire: because, in this kind of storage media (optical, or analog) is the best way to access or write non linear information.


    Take a cassette tape, for example, the information is linear, you must fast forward, stop, rewind the tape, and that takes time to access the information.


    In a disk, the media keeps rotating, and the head (the mechanical part who reads/write the info) can search any part of the media in a fraction of a second.

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    04/28/09

    @SewerShark: Well why not cylinders like the size of a small pencil?
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    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    I'm not impressed. They've been talking about this since 1977.



    As you can see, holographic storage has been around for years.

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    04/27/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:
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    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    Stimulated Light Utilizing Technology or SLUT.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    my guess it will be a another six years or more before we see any product using the tech. i heard of blu-ray starting around 1999 or so and if it follows the same time line it will be a while.


    ps
    i have no idea what i am talking about

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    04/27/09

    @Reply Works Again _Nick: Don't worry. You don't need to know what you're talking about.


    This is the internet after all.

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    04/27/09

    @OCEntertainment: phew. thank god.
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    Image of dsh dsh
    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    Now the real work begins:

    Finding a product name that could not possibly be offensive in any target market.
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    04/27/09

    @dsh: Lazer Blazers?
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