Movies on a flash drive not apt to boom anytime soon
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 23rd 2008 6:07PM
posted Feb 23rd 2008 6:07PM
posted Feb 23rd 2008 6:07PM
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Where did you find that Micro SD card or is it fake?
I'm pretty sure it's called Photoshop.
It's a real SD card...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/sandisk-crams-12gb-onto-a-microsdhc-card/
No Photoshop used.
I can see some sort of solid state format possibly gaining traction eventually, but I can't picture it within at least the next ten years. I personally feel that 1080p, lossless audio Blu-ray will meet my home theater needs for the indefinite future.
Well, for one, what are the costs of write-once vs. ultra-hi-speed rewritable cards designed for cameras?
Isn't Kodak trying to push out 1GB SD and CF cards for $5 (retail price) as 'film' that you could buy at the zoo, Disneyland, etc. if you run out of room?
But no matter, a 32GB card is not going to be cheap (read: $1-2) for a while unless there is a big technological jump.
I'm pretty sure that if anyone inked a deal with Disney where the big D charged $5 for the memory card, it would mean Kodak's only selling them for about 25 cents. Anything more, and Disney would be charging more like $20-25.
Once the capacities of these cards increases and cost comes down, it becomes a viable option. I'd take this over BlueRay.
By that time, you can just do digital downloads. Blu-Ray discs cost $2 a piece in volume to press & package, right now. Even an 8 GB read-only card has to be a LOT more than that.
that would be kinda cool tho.altho u would need a tv (or watever) to have like ten inputs and then pik wich u wanna see. but id rather have to repair scratches then drop the lil card everytime i wanna get it out hahah
It's a shame that the companies that make these don't try to push for cheaper higher capcity cards because think of the size of the player that would use this, it could be the size of an ipod with no moving parts!!! They don't have to be a micro card either, but any small card would be nice. My only question is can these cards produce the same quality as disks? If they can't then i'll stick with disks, but I do like the smaller size and no moving parts so my battery in my notebook would last longer too!
Hypothetically, if you could have a flash memory card that held 50 GB at the right price, you could have identical quality to Blu-ray. The problems are dual: A 32 GB SDHC card is going for around $700 right now. Second is that data on a flash drive will have a shorter life span than data stored in an optical format like a BD.
I think there will have to be some new form of solid state storage developed before this is even a possibility. Personally, I'm holding out for the Babylon 5-style "data crystal".
There is only one reason (besides the development of 50 GB SD cards) why this wouldn't happen. It's not because of the idea, it's who owns what. Seeing that for example SanDisk owns the patents, etc. Why would Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Samsung etc...want Sandisk getting all the royalties? They wouldn't. It's all about the money, if SD cards could work, it would never get off the ground because companies like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Samsung would get less of the pie. Money royalist drive the development of new formats, Plain and Simple.
Another big reason why it will take a while; there are a lot of different formats of memory cards. Which companpy will get the royalties off all the memory card sales?? Can you say format war times 4.
The days of physical media are over. I just wish I wasn't the only one who thought that.
The idea of flash cards being used by rental companies such as Blockbuster or Netflix is intriguing. Imagine buying an SD card and filling up the card at a kiosk in the local 7 Eleven or gas station. Creating a viable DRM would be key. Otherwise, it would save rental companies millions of dollars, and give customers more accessibility to the latest Movie releases.