IIRC, in the beginning there was actually a point to the MS range - they were far thinner and smaller than competing technologies (i.e. compact flash). However, with the rise of SD they seem totally redundant now. If they had impressive R/W speed or capacity then that might justify their existence, but ~20Mb/s is totally standard for good SD cards (and isn't even half of what the new UDMA compact flash cards can achieve).
Still, whilst they're making their own laptops and camera-corders I suppose there's nothing anyone can do about it.
I've always been a fan of Kodak cameras and hated sony's menu system and use of their proprietary format memory cards... it almost hurt when I purchased my new camera last week.. it's a sony. they've come a long way with the menu system.. the only real gripe I have is that I can't just pull the card and put it in my phone or consoles as easily as my SD cards... so I understand what you mean. It's almost like they had a board meeting and said "how can we possibly alienate and piss of tech savvy people with something basic that's easy to do properly...?" and came up with "come out with a memory card format that SUCKS and won't be used by anyone else and slap it into some very sleek devices that perform well". bastards.
makes me wish that this camera wouldn't have been so awesome.. then I wouldn't be stuck with memory sticks. ugh.
Same here, I don't buy products that use non-standard memory. But then Sony is famous for shooting itself in the foot again and again and again with their attempts to get a monopoly on one format or another.
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ive always hated Sony's line of proprietary memory sticks, which is why i choose not to buy any products that use them.
SD and and their mini and micro brothers all the way, none of this MemoryStick or XD card crap
Agreed. I wish that for once, tech companies could just agree on a standard format (i.e., SD).
It is very silly.
IIRC, in the beginning there was actually a point to the MS range - they were far thinner and smaller than competing technologies (i.e. compact flash). However, with the rise of SD they seem totally redundant now. If they had impressive R/W speed or capacity then that might justify their existence, but ~20Mb/s is totally standard for good SD cards (and isn't even half of what the new UDMA compact flash cards can achieve).
Still, whilst they're making their own laptops and camera-corders I suppose there's nothing anyone can do about it.
I've always been a fan of Kodak cameras and hated sony's menu system and use of their proprietary format memory cards... it almost hurt when I purchased my new camera last week.. it's a sony. they've come a long way with the menu system.. the only real gripe I have is that I can't just pull the card and put it in my phone or consoles as easily as my SD cards... so I understand what you mean. It's almost like they had a board meeting and said "how can we possibly alienate and piss of tech savvy people with something basic that's easy to do properly...?" and came up with "come out with a memory card format that SUCKS and won't be used by anyone else and slap it into some very sleek devices that perform well". bastards.
makes me wish that this camera wouldn't have been so awesome.. then I wouldn't be stuck with memory sticks. ugh.
Same here, I don't buy products that use non-standard memory. But then Sony is famous for shooting itself in the foot again and again and again with their attempts to get a monopoly on one format or another.
@prokanda
Some of the new Sony DSLRs use standard Compact Flash Cards.