[bookport] Re: future of compactflash cards
- From: "John McCann" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:39:41 -0400
Also, I read a a press release on the sandisk website about three months ago
that touted the development of an 8GB compact flash memory card; hence, I
doubt that this particular media format will die any time soon.
John
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From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: future of compactflash cards
> While compact flash may disappear as you suggest, I think it will take far
> longer than a couple of years. There are just too many devices using
> them,
> so, the market will stay viable for quite some time. Just an opinion.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:57 PM
> Subject: [bookport] future of compactflash cards
>
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> : Hi all, I read an interesting article today, and was just wondering what
> : everyone thought on this. Of course, you can't always believe everything
> you
> : read, especially on the internet, but, it was basically talking about
> the
> : different types of flash memory, compactflash, multimedia card, secure
> : digital, xd picture card, and the memory stick. The interesting part of
> the
> : article was that it was saying that with there smaller form factors, the
> : multimedia card, secure digital and smart media cards were rapidly being
> : used in place of compactflash cards in cameras, pdas, and mp3 players,
> and
> : that the compactflash card was becoming obsolescent, and would probably
> : disappear from the market with in the next year or two. I can't help but
> : wonder if there is any truth to this? I've actually never seen any of
> the
> : other types of cards, so I wonder if there is anything better about
> them,
> or
> : if it's just a different type of connector, but the same result.
> : Compactflash does seem to have the largest storage out of all of them,
> but,
> : even still, it was kind of an interesting article.
> :
> :
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