http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/ Engadget Comments for With focus on Blu-ray, Sony quietly kills PDD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
Yeah, screw this PDD stuff tho.]]>Mar 1st 2006 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
oh and both vinyl and betamax(betacam) are still "alive"]]>Mar 1st 2006 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
Even if the data only version of the format disappears, we will see the pro-video version for a *long* time. That will mirror Betamax's progression into Betacam in 1982, then Betacam SP, DigiBeta, HDCAM and recently HDCAM SR. All are developments of the same original tape form factor.]]>Mar 1st 2006 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/Hopefully the same will happen to blu-ray. Given Sony's track record, I'm surprised anyone invests in any of their media projects at all.

Surur]]>Mar 1st 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
My biggest peeve right now is the 1gb memory stick pro duo that I bought for my s710a phone, only to find "only supports memory stick duo" under a microscope on the manual. Oh well, now I have a gig of memory for my sony camera :

and for the record, minidisc is still thriving in Japan.]]>Mar 1st 2006 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
Anyway, ditching the old format makes sense for Sony. It doesn't take much IQ on the part of the media types using digital cammeras to figure out that BluRay recordables will be cheaper to source within a few months and the DL versions can hold more than the 23GB of the Pro discs. Which would you choose?]]>Mar 1st 2006 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/minidisc is still alive
http://forums.minidisc.org/

its just not popular in the US because......
well i dont know
maybe they arent marketed good or something
but ya i listen to my himd player
25 hrs of batt life on a single AA
plus 1 gig discs
]]>Mar 1st 2006 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/Mar 1st 2006 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/I didn't even know that this format did exist. Guess it was wise Sony to kill it. It's just costing money for them and it will go nowhere.]]>Mar 1st 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/Mar 1st 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
If you ask me, it's just a clever way to help curb a little of that R&D cost.]]>Mar 1st 2006 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/Mar 1st 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
Look, Mom! A $60 coaster!]]>Mar 1st 2006 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
sony professional gear is always #1...look at any studio and you will see Sony decks, sony professional monitors etc. sony also make some of the most widely used cameras out there - Cinealta, f950...serious hardware.

again, most of you will have never heard of this format...try panasonic 'p2' format for a serious cash burner]]>Mar 1st 2006 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/Mar 1st 2006 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/
And yeah, Sony's needs to chill out on the proprietary crap and go for accepted standards.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/with-focus-on-blu-ray-sony-quietly-kills-pdd/You don't know the impact of this news. The whole XDcam format works only with PDD disks. And they sold a lot of those camera's I'm sure. Imagine an edithouse desides to replace their equipment with XDcam, then suddenly Sony says their not gonna develop it anymore, people really start shaking then...]]>Mar 5th 2006 4:50AM