http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/ Engadget Comments for Sony's TransferJet-packin' Memory Stick Duo hits the FCC 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/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 14th 2009 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Betamax, Minidisc, UMD and Memory Stick.
All failures, but they haven't given up on MS yet :)

CD's and Bluray were also developed by Sony, but in conjunction with Philips. Perhaps Philips cancels out Sony's bad media mojo.]]>Nov 13th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
Just when you thought they might be facing reality by adding SD support to a couple of products, they waste more time and resources on this sad boondoggle.

GIVE IT UP, SONY. Nobody wants this proprietary BS storage format.]]>Nov 13th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/All failures"

None of those were really failures. UMD is a massive seller for example.

UMD holds more than just movies.]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 14th 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
Not sure on the M2 adapters, but M2 cards aren't all that cheap.

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Any other wireless technology is a waste of time unless it automatically uploads my pictures to MobileMe, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums or Flickr...

The new frontier of digital camera's is wireless photo uploading...

Allowing one to snap a photo and within range of an internet connection have that photo instantly uploaded to the net so that you can share your photos instantly with others via their Apple TV's, Tivo's iPhones, Blackberries & Android devices is where it's at...]]>Nov 13th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
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Seriously, who's going to use this? The one area we can see wireless transmission of stuff instead of storing it on memory cards is photography; there are a few DSLRs that can transmit pictures over 802.11. Of course, that's only useful if you're pretty much in the same room as the receiver, so who'd use it? I guess a pro photographer in his studio.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that essentially no pro photographers use Sony DSLRs. And none of the other manufacturers are dumb enough to use MemoryStick.

So this leaves a target market of whom, exactly?]]>Nov 13th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/icd-confirms-vega-tablet-includes-android-2-0-tegra-processor/

Is this some kind of lame-ass viral marketing campaign for a new Friday the 13th movie?]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
Unfortunately the proprietary nonsense is an issue even there - everyone else using mini or microUSB...sony? Big ass wonky cable with a weird proprietary connector. The only positive to it? At least its all the cables you need combined into one (transfer cable and connectors for a tv/monitor)...but it's not like sony is the ONLY one doing this kind of thing: look at all the freakin connectors on consoles of various types - nothing standard there. Cell phones are the freakin WORST, since it's very rare that any two use the same stuff (at least with many of the smartphones again, mini-micro usb is starting to become standard...but still, iphone uses its ipod shit, samsung has their own crap etc etc) ]]>Nov 13th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
And I LOVE you guys on Friday the 13th! Keep making me laugh!]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
I'm the lame-ass.]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/]]>Nov 13th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 13th 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/More importantly, most of these comments clearly miss the point of TransferJet, which is a short-range, high-speed technology designed to wirelessly replace tech like USB (ie. nothing to do with the Internet). The point is 'tapping' to transfer photos to your notebook, or downloading movie trailers to your mobile phone by tapping on a billboard... Plenty of other companies are signed up to use it (http://www.transferjet.org/en/) but, as Joseph points out, putting it in a Memory Stick (potentially offering backwards compatibility) is actually a pretty cool idea... ]]>Nov 13th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/
It's just me. I got burned by Sony products too many times. That's why I decided to switch. I used to have Sony PDA (Palm OS), Camera, Receiver, MD player, TVs, Camcorder and Laptop you name it. But based on my personal statistics, Sony products' failure rate is way higher than other products such Panasonic, Canon, HP, Dell. This is on top of incompatibility issues such as MS, MD music format. I am happier after the switch. Sony is not going to get a penny from me if they keep this mentality.]]>Nov 13th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.transferjet.org/en/about_cons/index.html

Look at the list of companies supporting this. I think Sony has finally learned that they can't come up with new "standards" and then just go at it alone.

The technology sounds pretty cool, and if it starts getting integrated into Memory Sticks, SD cards, and other things like that, this could really take off.]]>Nov 13th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/sonys-transferjet-packin-memory-stick-duo-hits-the-fcc/Nov 21st 2009 9:45AM