TWICE: Panasonic Bows Blu-ray Deck With "Final Standard" Features
Sounds lovely, but I have a question. When we start seeing SD cards with 50+ gigs on them (and don't kid yourself, it will happen. We're already seeing other flash memory types in that ballpark), why will we need Blu-ray optical discs?
Going back to my previous day's metaphor comparing the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD fracas to the Great War (ie: a senseless and futile waste of resources and lives), is a bigger, better, beefier Blu-ray player the CE equivalent of the Dreadnoughts that European naval powers channelled insane amounts of funds into at the end of the 19th Century: impressive as hell, but ulitimately ineffective at attaining dominance, and obsolete before the conflict was even over?
Panasonic today introduced a next-generation Blu-ray player it said is the first with the format’s Final Standard Profile feature, and will ship it in November.
Final Standard Profile is an advanced function added to the Blu-ray standard, which Panasonic said allows new functions such as picture-in-picture and audio mixing (which allows the consumer to switch the sound between the main and sub windows).
Panasonic’s DMP-BD30 is said to be the first Blu-ray deck to also feature the inclusion of an SD card slot for playback of high-definition content recorded in the AVCHD format. The SD slot also allows for viewing of digital still images recorded to an SD card.
Sounds lovely, but I have a question. When we start seeing SD cards with 50+ gigs on them (and don't kid yourself, it will happen. We're already seeing other flash memory types in that ballpark), why will we need Blu-ray optical discs?
Going back to my previous day's metaphor comparing the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD fracas to the Great War (ie: a senseless and futile waste of resources and lives), is a bigger, better, beefier Blu-ray player the CE equivalent of the Dreadnoughts that European naval powers channelled insane amounts of funds into at the end of the 19th Century: impressive as hell, but ulitimately ineffective at attaining dominance, and obsolete before the conflict was even over?
The smart money is on hi-cap flash memory, and bigger, better high-speed downloads.
2 comments:
I TOTALLY agree with you in terms of flash memory, Lee. I have always been a big supporter of that form of media: I find it the most ubiquitous, hassle-free method of transferring data to/from devices. I also think it's somehow (and even possibly by mistake) become somewhat of a "universal" form of storing content, despite the fact that there's so many different card formats out there.
Here's another flash memory application that I found interesting: http://www.marketnews.ca/news_detail.asp?nid=3091 (yes, I know - shameless self-promotion)... :)
Christine, that's such a brilliant, yet obvious application for flash memory, it's hard to believe that no one else had done it before. That is definetely the road we're taking as an industry.
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