Can you imagine a single disc that could hold your entire music and movie libraries combined? It sounds like something out of Star Trek, but it’s not as far away as you might think. In fact, it’s already here. Maxell has introduced a new type of disc that can get it done – holographic media. The first generation discs will hold 300GB with a 20MBPs transfer rate.

“Holographic media makes it possible for millions of pages of information and high definition images to be held on one small, relatively inexpensive disc,” said Steven Pofcher, senior marketing manager at Maxell. “Imagine having a person’s entire medical history, complete with MRI images, or storing a broadcast network’s entire HD Library on a single disc. These are both possible with holographic technology, which has such large capacity that approximately a half million 300-page books can be stored on a single disc.”

Now how “relatively inexpensive” will each disc be?