The SD Association has made several predictions and some promises at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The consortium which includes well-known corporations such as SanDisk and Hewlett-Packard, invites you to imagine storing up to 100 High-definition movies on a memory card about the size of a stamp, and being able to access that content easily with a variety ... [ read the full article ]
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I don't like the idea of a 2TB SD card... Sounds extremely expensive even 5 years don the road and easily lost... I'm finding cards that I didn't even know I had :S
A 2GB card just popped out under the rubble on my desk :/
It WOULD however be nice to replace my lawnmower of a 1TB drive with something quieter...
Whenever "new" technology comes out, it?s always expensive as hell. It?s not really that "new" at all; they are just improving on current technology. It's not like they found a new element or something groundbreaking. SanDisk now charges $150 for a 16GB SD w/ 15mb/s transfer rate. I'm pretty sure it didn't cost them nearly half that much for a little piece of plastic. Just imagine how much 2TB is going to cost us. I'm also a bit disappointed at how many companies are saying how long it will take to release things to the public. This is coming out in 5 years. USB 3.0 will be mainstream in Q1 of 2010. We have the technology to do this, give it to consumers already. I'm sure there are many consumers out there, like myself, that are putting off buying a new laptop, or TV, etc, untill these "new" technologies are incorporated in certain devices, and for not ridiculous prices. At least SSD prices are starting to drop. Don't mean to get off topic, but it just makes me mad at how slow technology has been moving in the past few years, and the corporate greed along with it
i disagree to mike.m. technology has been growing faster then never, and prices is low too, you dont even need the top of the line to be satisfide 3rd or 2nd best will do nowadays. Unless you just start paying atention to technology you would realize that.
Prices drop extremely fast. When 2 TB cards come out, they'll probably be 150$-300$. Couple of years ago I bought 512mb MS card for 70 euros, now you can buy 16GB card for 35 euros. Especially SDHC and usb-drives prices drop fast. Just couple of months ago cheapest 16GB card was 50 euros, now I can get one for 30 euros. Same deal with usb-drives, they're even cheaper than SD-cards.
I guess I should have waited I got an 8G USB drive for 12 USD before X-Mass.
Now, the 64 G might cost 120 or even more but that is new. There is nothing wrong with overcharging for new technology. It takes about a year before the industry has the capacity to make enough to drop the price. There are always persons who will pay anything to be the first on their block to have XYZ.
