http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/ Engadget Comments for Panasonic shipping first SDXC cards next month for ungodly amounts of cash 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/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
...........whatever]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
no, it's only $599.95. ]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
that's what people will be saying when these are $50 on newegg in 2-3 years.]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Haha, probably 1.]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/I see this as a shadow of things to come... Panasonic is only dropping these now to make sure people know the SDXC card format does exist, and to put some fire under the toes of other manufacturers so that they start making SDXC compatible devices.

However, I suspect the real reason Panasonic is scoping out SDXC at all is for the professional video market, for use with codecs like AVCIntra100, which records at 100Mbit/sec, or 12.5Mbps. This adds up to a whopping 1Gb per minute of video, which makes 16Gb cards kinda worthlessly small. Throw a 128Gb, much less a 1Tb SDXC in the same camera, and you have record times worth actually using. Then once Eye-fi gets their hands on them...]]>Jan 8th 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Can you get them in that tiny size?
Not that I endorse that ridiculous price.]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/This is just... wow]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
Who cares about the size, an SSD will run laps around this thing in a device that's actually useful, like a laptop. And you can get the current best 160GB for nearly $150 less than this in the Intel X25-M G2, which will improve every aspect of using it. What's doubling the capacity of an 32GB SSD? You can take another 5000 hi res pictures on top of the 5000 you already took?]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/How can they expect people to spend that much on those!!!!!!!
If they where talking in the hundreds of gigabytes then ok, but $450 for freaking 48GB!!!
]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
Its for people buying that $21k 3D camcorder ha]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/]]>Jan 6th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/There have been 32 gb SD cards for a while SDCH or something...]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
We'll I haven't seen any for sale yet, even if they exist.]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/]]>Jan 6th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 7th 2010 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
its smaller in size so it can fit into a camcorder/digital camera. Or those people who take intense RAW pictures and want to take them in succession. ]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
Way to spend $450 on something you can't actually USE anywhere.]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Also what stops you from formatting it with something else? as long as it can handle large sizes, and is speedy.
You'd still need the hardware to support it though that is true, and if they do they logically also support the exFAT filesystem since it's part of the license package anyway I expect.]]>Jan 6th 2010 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 7th 2010 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
I guess I must have missed the memo where all new cameras will be twice as large to incorporate an SSD slot... Someone care to link me? -.-

I'm not denying these prices aren't crazy, but you do realise you can't use SSDs for everything...]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
And they do make portable drives with SD slots where you put in an SD and it automatically copies the content to the HD and you can start re-using the SD card, although I'm not sure they have those in SSD style yet.]]>Jan 6th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
It's proprietary if Microsoft requires a (minimum) $300k licensing fee. Having an license from the SD group does not entitle you to an exFAT license, just the SD logo. For everyone that is using FAT for free, the several hundred thousand dollar fee is a big sticker shock.

I see one (or both) of two things happening:
(1) Manufacturers ignore the SD group's recommendations, eschewing the SD group and exFAT.
(2) Manufacturers stick with SDHC and the 32 GB limit because, realistically, most people don't need more than 32 GB in a single card, especially when it's slow (even at class 10 speeds).

The SD group has gimped adoption of SDXC by going with a proprietary filesystem requiring exFAT licensing (it doesn't help that the prices on the things are insane). It's going to take half a decade, if not more, till we see these things in the mainstream and at reasonable prices.]]>Jan 7th 2010 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
22MB/s??


IS THIS A JOKE



i thought the SDXC is meant to do WAY better than that
]]>Jan 6th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/and it costs... of course..

*sigh]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/
I was also waiting for 35MB/s write and 60MB/s read!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/toshibas-capacious-64gb-sdxc-card-sampling-this-december-thril/]]>Jan 6th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/64GB SDcard or Nexus One...
64GB SDcard or Nexus One...?]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun/Jan 6th 2010 10:08PM