Sony's TransferJet-packin' Memory Stick Duo hits the FCC
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Nov 13th 2009 3:21PM
posted Nov 13th 2009 3:21PM
If what we saw at CEATEC is any indication, we can all look forward to a future where damn near every new piece of Sony kit that we lay our hands on will support its fledgling wireless technology, TransferJet. As you might have guessed, we've been keeping our eyes on the usual channels in vain hopes of finding any gear sporting the new standard. So, what do we have here? Our friends at Sony Insider have spotted FCC paperwork for the MS-JX8G, which is apparently a Memory Stick Duo that sports the protocol -- and which (hopefully) means that someday soon we'll be able to grandfather TransferJet into all of our existing Memory Stick Duo-supporting devices. Pretty clever, Sony!
Why do I feel like I'm about to be stabbed by that memory stick?
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Technically, it's Jeh-jeh-jeh Kih-kih-kih, because it's supposed to be his mother saying "Jason Jason Jason Kill Kill Kill".
Someone please explain to me why Sony had to choose "Memory Stick Duo" as their proprietary memory card thing ma jig. I don't like it. I want a standard.
That's just Sony for you.
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.
Yes, this is pathetic. Sony need to wake up and realize that many people avoid their products BECAUSE OF MemoryStick.
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.
"Betamax, Minidisc, UMD and Memory Stick.
All failures"
None of those were really failures. UMD is a massive seller for example.
UMD holds more than just movies.
There are standards. Sony missed that meeting apparently.
Can they even add this kind of functionality to SD cards? That seems like a huge legal headache.
Memory Stick is still too expensive compared to other cards. Get a miniSD-to-Memory Stick PRO Duo adapter. Cheaper memory, `works just as well in most cases.
Not sure on the M2 adapters, but M2 cards aren't all that cheap.
The only wireless card I would even think about having for my digital camera is an EyeFi card...
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...
I dont want to upload every picture I take to any website... I'd like real geotagging on my SD card though, or from my camera...
This doesn't even support that marginally useful function. This is short-range sharing, making it particularly pointless.
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?
is that jason there?
Yes and I want to know what the deal is here. He also appeared in this article's image:
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?
Yea it's almost like today is Friday the 13th
I'll start buying Sony products again when they stop using proprietary storage formats, in other words never. Sayonara Sony, nice knowing you...
I dunno..won't speak for this particular thing, but I do love my sony cybershot :p
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)
LOVE the way you put VOORHEES on there...
And I LOVE you guys on Friday the 13th! Keep making me laugh!
OK, now I get it. I really need to pay attention to the date.
I'm the lame-ass.
If Sony make it or own the copyright, then it will be shit priced... sorry, "Demand a premium".
I almost missed the V00RH33Z. Nice touch!
Does that mean my PRS-505 Reader will have wireless? Quite nice.
I have stopped buy anything made by Sony 5 years ago after being burned by their non standard approach of everything: Betamax, Minidisc, Memory Stick etc. I don't mind supporting things if they are first of the kind. But common, why Sony had to use Memory stick where there were already SD that were adopted by most of the electronic manufacturers?
To start with, Memory Stick has been around for years (several years longer than SD by the way hhshen), and with hundreds of millions of them sold and over 700 companies developing Memory Stick-compatble products I think you'd be hard-pressed to call it a failure... Beta, UMB and MiniDisc also found markets in a way that no other competitor did (walk into any Japanese electronics store 5 years ago and you couldn't buy a stereo 'without' MD for example).
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...
Joe,
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.
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.
Come on people you must know that Sony has always been proprietary with it's products. If you love Sony products then live with it. If you don't then use your favorite standard. I see no point in talking bad about a company that has always been family entertainment oriented. Sony quality has always been top notch although theor prices have always been right up there too. Sony is around to stay.