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Published online 27 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040927-3
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Video disks ditch binary storage
Next-generation disks could hold hundreds of hours of footage.
Why count in binary when you can use hundreds of different digits at once? That's the principle that has allowed British physicists to develop a video disk that stores far more data than has ever been possible before.
The disk, called MODS, for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage, could easily store all 350 episodes of The Simpsons, with room to spare for some Futurama too.
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