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Author:  Oberon [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:10 am ]
Post subject:  Flash Drive Movies
Well, I think Spud's dream has come true - Flash drive technology for movies!

From Slyck.com:

Quote:
Sony Entertainment and PNY Technologies have teamed up to become the first to distribute a movie (legally) on a USB flash drive. PNY Technologies, developers and manufactures of all kinds of memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards, computer memory and so on, announced the arrival of the original "Ghostbusters" movie on a 2 gigabyte USB drive.

Some immediate questions may be: what's the price, is there DRM, and is there any space left over? So far, the USB drive is available on the UK online retailer Argos for £29.99, or about $53.30. That's a pricey USB stick, considering a Ghostbusters DVD is selling for less than $15 on Amazon. A new USB drive on Newegg sells for less than $20.00.


Here's the full article:

http://www.slyck.com/story1756_Ghostbus ... USB_Memory

It's obviously pricey but how long do you think before we can say "Do you remember when we
all used those plastic discs?"

:)
Author:  RedVeil [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Flash Drive Movies
Why not use "memory cards" instead? Like "SD" or "micro SD".
Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Flash Drive Movies
RedVeil wrote:
Why not use "memory cards" instead? Like "SD" or "micro SD".



write once vs multi-write would be my guess?

Plus the speed would have to be significantly higher, as would the capcity to store say, a bluray quality movie.
Author:  RedVeil [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Flash Drive Movies
spudthedestroyer wrote:
RedVeil wrote:
Why not use "memory cards" instead? Like "SD" or "micro SD".



write once vs multi-write would be my guess?


Excuse me, but I don't get this point.
Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Flash Drive Movies
RedVeil wrote:
spudthedestroyer wrote:
RedVeil wrote:
Why not use "memory cards" instead? Like "SD" or "micro SD".



write once vs multi-write would be my guess?


Excuse me, but I don't get this point.


SD is multiple write, these movies should be single write when they are pressed and you won't be able to delete the content. Or common sense would dictate anyway. Its cheaper to press with the data on than to produce then write the movie after providing the stick. Then again it sounds like its just a usb stick with the movie on, which imo is a f*cking stupid idea, but marginly better than something that would require an adapter like micro sd or sd.

I'm just guessing, since the original article is woefully short on the implementation details. It does sound awfully like a plain usb stick which is a crap idea, its big and erasable... and the capacity is too low for a decent encode.

ultimately a good idea, but a shit implementation if its just a usb stick...
Author:  RedVeil [ Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Flash Drive Movies
There is a lock feature on SD cards. So I guess you could make them permanently read-only.
You don't need an adapter if you have one of those genial XY-in-1 USB card readers. But how would you play the movie anyway if you don't have a USB slot on you standalone... :suicide:
Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Flash Drive Movies
that's why this a shit idea. :lol:

As for sds, slow shitty and requires adapters to work on most machines. I'm pretty sure usb2 transfer rate is much, much, much higher. Capacity is less too i think, usbs i've seen ~32Gb (even though i think its a shit idea using a usb flash card), most i've seen sd is ~ 8GB. You get the same read only locks on usb pens, but i thought this was a proper flash format... reading the article its clearly not and i think its a shit idea.

They need to make standalones with a standard write-once flashcard format, fully specced. Not hack a usb drive and stick an avi on it.

So tacking a movie format onto something like a usbpen or a sd card is just as shitty as the poor upgrade we got with hd-dvd and bluray
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