Cards as Primary Media Sources

Is there any chance that the costs of one, or more, types of memory
card will drop enough to allow them to compete with dvd's as a direct-
from-studio content source?

It seems like a high definition copy could fit on a card, and future
hdtv sets might come with a slot for flash card uploads. It would save
a lot of space, if movies started coming out on cards the size of a
gum stick.

Neil wrote:
<snip>
>
> Careful, I had a mouthful of coffee, that's another keyboard wrecked.
>
> Never had any 8" floppies, I've got an unopened box of 5.25" in the
> cupboard.
>
> Regards,

I hope you aren't feeling sad about missing out on 8" floppies. I had
some dealings with them on mainframes (IBM 135, 145), minicomputers,
some early microcomputers, and keypunch replacement devices; they were
convenient for transferring data from mainframes to minis, among other
things. Fine in their time--which corresponded roughly with the hyday of
Kodak Tri-X.
Allen

IronyMan wrote:
<snip>
> And I hope you're not belittling my 8" floppies, they still work just fine for
> transferring data to my 10 meg MFM hard-drives on my CP/M machines. With that
> much storage I don't think I'll ever fill them up. But I do wish they'd get
> these 150 baud modems smaller. The one I have now is the size of a medium
> suitcase, weighs about 35 lbs., and needs to be hard-wired into the
> communication lines. At least it still works good. The speed is impressive. I
> can send all the data from an 8" - 168k single-sided floppy in about 2 days ...
> if nothing goes wrong. I should invent some kind of error checking protocol, it
> would help. So far the receiving computer owner and I just check our wall-clocks
> and agree when I'll try to start sending data. If it fails then we try again on
> 15 minute intervals to get them talking to each other. It works about 50% of the
> time.

Have you tried direct mail? It might be faster. Of course you would need
a second 8" drive to make a copy.
Allen

IronyMan leapingtalltales@metropolis.com posted to rec.photo.digital:

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:28:51 -0600, Allen <allen@nothere.net> wrote:
>
>>Neil wrote:
>><snip>
>>>
>>> Careful, I had a mouthful of coffee, that's another keyboard
>>> wrecked.
>>>
>>> Never had any 8" floppies, I've got an unopened box of 5.25" in
>>> the cupboard.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>>I hope you aren't feeling sad about missing out on 8" floppies. I
>>had some dealings with them on mainframes (IBM 135, 145),
>>minicomputers, some early microcomputers, and keypunch replacement
>>devices; they were convenient for transferring data from mainframes
>>to minis, among other things. Fine in their time--which corresponded
>>roughly with the hyday of Kodak Tri-X.
>>Allen
>
> And I hope you're not belittling my 8" floppies, they still work
> just fine for transferring data to my 10 meg MFM hard-drives on my
> CP/M machines. With that much storage I don't think I'll ever fill
> them up. But I do wish they'd get these 150 baud modems smaller. The
> one I have now is the size of a medium suitcase, weighs about 35
> lbs., and needs to be hard-wired into the communication lines. At
> least it still works good. The speed is impressive. I can send all
> the data from an 8" - 168k single-sided floppy in about 2 days ...
> if nothing goes wrong. I should invent some kind of error checking
> protocol, it would help. So far the receiving computer owner and I
> just check our wall-clocks and agree when I'll try to start sending
> data. If it fails then we try again on 15 minute intervals to get
> them talking to each other. It works about 50% of the time.

Both your tongue and your groove must hurt by now.