Are xD and Memorystick dead, finally?
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From: RichA on 17 Jan 2010 18:48 I sure hope so. Memory Stick was just a product of Sony arrogance. xD was an interesting follow-on to Smart Media, but it just did not keep pace with SD.
From: Keith Nuttle on 17 Jan 2010 20:25 On 1/17/2010 6:48 PM, RichA wrote: > I sure hope so. Memory Stick was just a product of Sony arrogance. > xD was an interesting follow-on to Smart Media, but it just did not > keep pace with SD. > > I just checked the Olympus website. Of the ones I checked with removable memory all use the xD card.
From: R. Mark Clayton on 17 Jan 2010 20:47 "RichA" <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:3fa82943-1445-4943-86ac-59b31d8a94fd(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... >I sure hope so. > Memory Stick was just a product of Sony arrogance. Sort off, it was an attempt to use technical incompatability to lock customers in - a strong reason (along with DRM and malware) to avoid them. > xD was an interesting follow-on to Smart Media, but it just did not > keep pace with SD. Indeed although it struggles on here and there. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XD_card Looks like its early size advantage has been lost the disadvantage list is long, so Fuji & Olympus have abandonded it. > >
From: Peter Huebner on 17 Jan 2010 21:19 In article <QKadnUpd3bsDIM7WnZ2dnUVZ8tadnZ2d(a)bt.com>, nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com says... > > Looks like its early size advantage has been lost the disadvantage list is > long, so Fuji & Olympus have abandonded it. > That size is as much disadvantage as advantage, they are just a bit too awkward to handle at times (particularly when trying to insert into card readers, the slot in the cameras is pretty well matched). I actually went and bought a Oly mausb-200 pen drive that takes xD cards as memory to get past the card reader annoyance. I do not, by the way, have sausage-fingers. -P.
From: GMAN on 17 Jan 2010 22:35
In article <3fa82943-1445-4943-86ac-59b31d8a94fd(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I sure hope so. Memory Stick was just a product of Sony arrogance. >xD was an interesting follow-on to Smart Media, but it just did not >keep pace with SD. > > Oh but if microsoft invented their own memory , it would be a work of genious? |