XD vs. SD cards

[BG250]

Yet another battle for media card supremacy. With Smartmedia finally dieing
off, it looks as if these too will do battle.

Why did another sub-mini card standard arise? In your opinion, which of the
two will succeed?
Just curious. I knew these cards were available, but I don't know much about
them.
bg

[Tumbleweed]

"BG250" <NOamgspam@donet.com> wrote in message
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> Yet another battle for media card supremacy. With Smartmedia finally

dieing

> off, it looks as if these too will do battle.
>
> Why did another sub-mini card standard arise?

Simple, because its more profitable for the xD card vendors.

> In your opinion, which of the
> two will succeed?

Both may coexist, but if one goes it will definitely be xD, since SD is also
used in other equipment, such as PDAs (and maybe phones ???), so its got a
bigger market even if you discount cameras.

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[Thom Tapp]

Actually, I have heard that the XD cards will allow smaller digital devices
in the future.

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> "BG250" <NOamgspam@donet.com> wrote in message
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> > Yet another battle for media card supremacy. With Smartmedia finally

> dieing

> > off, it looks as if these too will do battle.
> >
> > Why did another sub-mini card standard arise?

>
> Simple, because its more profitable for the xD card vendors.

> > In your opinion, which of the
> > two will succeed?

>
> Both may coexist, but if one goes it will definitely be xD, since SD is

also

> used in other equipment, such as PDAs (and maybe phones ???), so its got a
> bigger market even if you discount cameras.
>
> --
> Tumbleweed
>
> Remove theobvious before replying (but no email reply necessary to
> newsgroups)
>
>
>
>

[Mark M]

"BG250" <NOamgspam@donet.com> wrote in message
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> Yet another battle for media card supremacy. With Smartmedia finally

dieing

> off, it looks as if these too will do battle.
>
> Why did another sub-mini card standard arise? In your opinion, which of

the

> two will succeed?
> Just curious. I knew these cards were available, but I don't know much

about

> them.
> bg

SD already has made major in-roads into many types of devices, from cameras
and PDAs to MP3 players. xD Has been embraced by Olympus--which I take as a
bad sign. Olympus kept the dying Smartmedia cards on life support FAR too
long, and...like Sony...tried to build dependance. It hasn't worked for
Olympus. Sony is still trying to make their memory stick deal fly, though
they blew it with their own 128MB capacity blunder--requiring them to revamp
their card.

I predict that xD will die...if for no other reason than it's frightening
resemblance to Smartmedia in both manufacturer support and actual apearance.

[HRosita]

Hi,

Both OLympus and Fuji use XD. I have a Fuji A303 for grabshots and the XD card
seems faster than my CF card in the Minolta D7Hi.

I guess time will tell but definitely the XD card will allow for smaller
cameras.
Rosita

[Mark M]

"HRosita" <hrosita@aol.comnet> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Both OLympus and Fuji use XD. I have a Fuji A303 for grabshots and the XD

card

> seems faster than my CF card in the Minolta D7Hi.
>
> I guess time will tell but definitely the XD card will allow for smaller
> cameras.

The question was comparing XD and Secure Digital (SD)...not CF.

[Ron Hunter]

John Navas wrote:

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>
> In <vh5kn8mnv5s198@corp.supernews.com> on Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:58:36 -0400,
> "BG250" <NOamgspam@donet.com> wrote:
>
>

>>Yet another battle for media card supremacy. With Smartmedia finally dieing
>>off, it looks as if these too will do battle.
>>
>>Why did another sub-mini card standard arise? In your opinion, which of the
>>two will succeed?
>>Just curious. I knew these cards were available, but I don't know much about
>>them.

>
>
> XD is yet another silly, unnecessary format, this time from the folks that
> brought you [drum roll] the not-so-smart SmartMedia. "Fool me once, shame on
> you; fool me twice, shame on me!"
>

While I am not a fan of the 'controllerless' cards, the xD card has much
to recommend it to users of very small devices.
For a normal size digital camera, however, I would much rather have CF.

[John Navas]

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In <gTMQa.76$QE4.9622730@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com > on Tue, 15 Jul 2003
06:08:12 GMT, "Mike Jacoubowsky" <mikej1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>In the end it doesn't really matter. You'll be able to buy memory in any of
>the formats long after the camera has been dramatically surpassed in
>usefulness... the argument that a camera utilizing the "wrong" format will
>somehow become an albatross just doesn't hold water.

I beg to differ. I had a digicam that took only 5V SmartMedia cards, and
finally got rid of it, even though the camera still worked fine, because cards
were so hard to find. I won't make that mistake again. My current camera
uses Compact Flash.

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[John Navas]

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In <iXOQa.12291$2s2.945@fe12.atl2.webusenet.com> on Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:38:14
-0500, Ron Hunter <rphunter@charter.net> wrote:

>John Navas wrote:

>> XD is yet another silly, unnecessary format, this time from the folks that
>> brought you [drum roll] the not-so-smart SmartMedia. "Fool me once, shame on
>> you; fool me twice, shame on me!"

>
>While I am not a fan of the 'controllerless' cards, the xD card has much
>to recommend it to users of very small devices.

MiniSD is as good or better, while being both electrically and software
compatible with the existing SD standard.

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