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Old April 1st, 2010, 12:40 AM   #1
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Old April 1st, 2010, 02:19 AM   #2
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Amazing, and that on this day and age.! ;)
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Old April 1st, 2010, 02:24 AM   #3
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Finally Sony give up.
The Sony/Panasonic battle started with the Beta/VHS battle that Panasonic won in Europe.
The Beta SP/M2 battle was won by Sony. Now the Memorycard battle are won by Panasonic and SONY only have one way to go.
I have been testing the new cards that - not as you write - are based on SD cards but on a brand new BIO chip that will last for about 60 to 85 years. Only problem with the first models is that there is a little hole (cannot be seen on the picture as SONY had hoped this would be solved before the card was launced) In this hole you will have to give it a drop of water every day. Sony have been working on a solution where the water could be taken out of the air but they could not make it work in desert conditions - but maybe that will be solved. In arctic conditions you can use 100% clean alcohole but until now it can give some problems with erased memory. BUT this is certainly a day to remember.
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Old April 1st, 2010, 02:28 AM   #4
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IF it's true, and IF that quoted price is correct, AND IF they are as good as the Pana and Fuji cards, then they May become very popular.

BUT I suspect It's "APRIL 1" at SONY....

Still LOL
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Old April 1st, 2010, 06:40 AM   #5
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Only problem with the first models is that there is a little hole (cannot be seen on the picture as SONY had hoped this would be solved before the card was launced) In this hole you will have to give it a drop of water every day. Sony have been working on a solution where the water could be taken out of the air but they could not make it work in desert conditions
I think they call the air technology "air powered readable intelligent logic" but for the moment the bio chip set is using the more expensive "fast operation ordinary logic" chip set.
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Old April 1st, 2010, 09:02 AM   #6
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Sony's P2 cards could be great except for the 35Mbps throughput limitation, maximum 4:2:0 color space and needing a special $15,000 deck to play them back.

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Old April 1st, 2010, 10:10 AM   #7
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What special deck? OUCH!
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