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WanMan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:08 am Post subject: Movies on SD cards |
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Several years ago I suggested the best way to distribute movies was not an optical disk. While optical disks were oh so much better than tape for the ease of navigation, lack of early wear, and the ability to reduce the form factor, I really felt once flash memory cards got into mainstream use in cameras that movies would greatly benefit from them.
Now time has passed (several years since I made the comment) and flash memory is dirt cheap. And now Warner Brothers and Paramount are planning on movie distribution using SD memory.
I guess you don't have to worry about scratching disks, but you may find yourself misplacing the tiny widgets.
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The Media's too small. You'll sneeze and loose it.
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Mr. Green
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You lose a bit of image quality, but even a USB drive can play "reasonable" quality video. The new Samsung series 7 and 8 120hz LCD TV's have lots of input slots for playing media off of the tiny drives and it looks pretty good. Not sure about 1080p on a 106" screen good, but on a 1080p TV, it's just fine. If you don't keep your DVD's in the cases they come in and get a nice media binder, there is not much need to go smaller than a DVD unless you were travelling, but then you could put digital copies of movies on your Ipod or portable hard drive. SD cards would be easy to lose.
DVD storage...
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10108436&catid=
I have 2 of these and need another. I have 500 DVD's and about 30 Blu-ray's. It stores 8 per page (4 per side) and I have a printed catalogue which I update as I buy movies in order and by title so I can easily find what I'm looking for. With movie collections you should have a list anyways for insurance reasons in case anything ever happened.
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Clarence
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I've played HD movies on SD in the PS3 media slot. The main limitation is the FAT32 4Gb filesize limit. Just create a directory called /VIDEO on the SD.
>> The Media's too small. You'll sneeze and lose it.
Nah, my boys have dozens of the gameboy DS games... they're about the same size as SD. They've lost a couple, but no worse than cracking/scratching/losing DVDs.
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ecrabb
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| Mr. Green wrote: | | You lose a bit of image quality, but even a USB drive can play "reasonable" quality video. |
Huh? Lose a bit of quality to what? Compared to what? Assuming it's big enough, a flash-based USB drive can play not only "Blu-ray quality" video, but a Blu-ray image itself.
That said, the size of flash media that most people have laying around right now isn't large enough for BD-sized movies. The article specifically mentions that the company is distributing standard def, though. AVC movies in SD can easily be a gigabyte or less. It's just another avenue for people to get downloadable content - especially people who don't have the time or patience, or the broadband to download 1-2 gigabyte movies themselves.
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WanMan
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| Mr. Green wrote: | You lose a bit of image quality, but even a USB drive can play "reasonable" quality video. The new Samsung series 7 and 8 120hz LCD TV's have lots of input slots for playing media off of the tiny drives and it looks pretty good. Not sure about 1080p on a 106" screen good, but on a 1080p TV, it's just fine. If you don't keep your DVD's in the cases they come in and get a nice media binder, there is not much need to go smaller than a DVD unless you were travelling, but then you could put digital copies of movies on your Ipod or portable hard drive. SD cards would be easy to lose.
DVD storage...
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10108436&catid=
I have 2 of these and need another. I have 500 DVD's and about 30 Blu-ray's. It stores 8 per page (4 per side) and I have a printed catalogue which I update as I buy movies in order and by title so I can easily find what I'm looking for. With movie collections you should have a list anyways for insurance reasons in case anything ever happened. |
How would you be losing on image quality? flash storage can be readily had at 32GB yesterday. That already exceeds single-layer Blu-ray.
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garyfritz
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | The Media's too small. You'll sneeze and loose it. |
Remember Alex's postage-stamp-sized "chip" with Beethoven's 9th on it in Clockwork Orange? That was so futuristic and SF back then!! Now I have a 2GB micro-SD chip in my phone/mp3 player -- 15x11x1mm, smaller than my pinky fingernail -- that could easily hold ALL of Beethoven's symphonies and lots more. Hell, for $50 you can buy a 16GB micro-SD that would hold everything Beethoven ever wrote, and then some -- over 250 hours.
We may not have flying cars and personal jetpacks, but a few of those SF ideas *have* gone mainstream...
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AnalogRocks
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| garyfritz wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | The Media's too small. You'll sneeze and loose it. |
Remember Alex's postage-stamp-sized "chip" with Beethoven's 9th on it in Clockwork Orange? That was so futuristic and SF back then!! Now I have a 2GB micro-SD chip in my phone/mp3 player -- 15x11x1mm, smaller than my pinky fingernail -- that could easily hold ALL of Beethoven's symphonies and lots more. Hell, for $50 you can buy a 16GB micro-SD that would hold everything Beethoven ever wrote, and then some -- over 250 hours.
We may not have flying cars and personal jetpacks, but a few of those SF ideas *have* gone mainstream... |
Very true. A little big of the Ludwig Von....
I walked into my bank last week and one of the tellers was dresed in a Clockwork Orange type suite less the hat. I comented on it and I got a blank stare. Seems it was unintentional on her part.
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I also thought years ago that with the ability to manufacture components for laptops that there was no reason why the same components couldn't be used in desktop application. But then a lot of chit got integrated into the motherboards.
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| WanMan wrote: | | But then a lot of chit ... |
Tut tut Wan, I think Ron has a trademark on that word... 
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Which word, chit? Ok, let me tr shite.
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