IT’S the next big thing—allegedly. A super-dense fluorescent disc
designed to “replace DVDs, CDs and VHS videotape” will be played in public for
the first time next week at the swish Claridges hotel in London—if it
works that is. Last month, at a private demo, a prototype played only audio and
the sound stuttered and was distorted.
However, Constellation 3D of Concord, Massachusetts, is confident that its
new Fluorescent Multilayer Video Disc (FMVD) system will knock spots off
DVD.
The new discs look just like transparent CDs. They are made by first pressing
10 plastic films, each 15…
