Re: Cards as Primary Media Sources

In message <pno7j3ls2aptcfm9eh0sr7vj4ep71of0ag@xxxxxxx>, IronyMan <leapingtalltales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:19:18 GMT, John carter <carter92943234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:25:40 -0800, heremon wrote:

Is there any chance that the costs of one, or more, types of memory card
will drop enough to allow them to compete with dvd's as a direct-
from-studio content source?

No chance. DVDs are very very cheap to manufacture. Flash cards are
active semiconductor devices - they will always cost a lot more than DVDs.



Exactly. The very same way that floppies are so cheap to produce and don't need
anything more than a magnetic head to read and write to them. Those elaborate
optical storage discs for storing audio require lasers more powerful than are
available to consumers. The cost of the optical laser writers alone making them
impossible to own. The amount of technology and its high production costs
putting CD writers and the expensive media beyond anyone's reach and needs. Not
to mention that any society can create magnetic media and a way to read it. My
data is never going to be unreadable. It's not as safe nor as easy to reproduce
as a mechanical groove in a record, but its still within reach of most
civilizations to read my data in the future if they just know about electricity
and magnets. And I can store much more data this way. Better to just stick with
floppies. Though I have to admit, I've not used the 8" diameter ones in a while.
I have a case of them in the basement. When they found a way to store 168k on a
5.25" floppy compared to the same storage on the 8" ones, I invested in that new
technology without even thinking about it. I just copied all the data on my 8"
floppies to my 5.25" ones.

DVDs? What are those?


Careful, I had a mouthful of coffee, that's another keyboard wrecked.

Never had any 8" floppies, I've got an unopened box of 5.25" in the cupboard.

Regards,
--
Neil Pugh

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