G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc - NYTimes.com

Holographic storage has the potential to pack data far more densely than conventional optical technology, used in DVDs and the newer, high-capacity Blu-ray discs, in which information is stored as a pattern of laser-etched marks across the surface of a disc. The potential of holographic technology has long been known. The first research papers were published in the early 1960s.

G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc - NYTimes.com