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When will sources start rocking SDXC?

post #1 of 10
2/17/10 at 5:18pm
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It would solve so much digital and physical space problems. And would future proof. (nudge nudge hifiman <3 )

Any good ones out there?
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post #2 of 10
2/18/10 at 1:01pm
having a expansion card is already uncommon not to mention the latest SDXC which so far I know only a few laptop and Canon 550D (not released yet) has SDXC support. I doubt it will be that quick yet because only audiophiles will use lossless or high bit-rate MP3 which is minority in the market.
If you are the manufacturer, do you want people buy 1 player to hold his/her entire collection, or you want people to buy multiple PMP to each hold part of his/her collection. which is why most PMP do not have expansion slot and limited capacity.
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post #3 of 10
4/3/10 at 12:25pm
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Originally Posted by Infoseeker View Post
It would solve so much digital and physical space problems. And would future proof. (nudge nudge hifiman <3 )
You just answered your own question.

No player maker has incentive to make any of their players future proof.

In due time, when prices come down, we'll get SDCX, but as storage space is one of *the* selling points of players, no player maker is in hurry.
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post #4 of 10
4/3/10 at 9:21pm
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If you are the manufacturer, do you want people buy 1 player to hold his/her entire collection, or you want people to buy multiple PMP to each hold part of his/her collection.
I've never heard of somebody owning multiple media players to hold parts of their music collection. I just don't think there is a big demand for players that can hold a ton of music. I'd be interested to see the stats between hard drive ipods sold vs flash ipods sold, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.
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post #5 of 10
4/16/10 at 9:30pm
I don't think companies will start putting sd slots in their players for a long time. Having a slot will drastically lower the amount of higher capacity players sold (talking about getting a 32 gig Touch vs a 16 gb with a micro sd card slot).
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post #6 of 10
4/17/10 at 3:43am
When the SDXC tech does take hold, instead of an expansion slot, how about a high capacity flash player,160 + gig flash instead of hard drive. Way I figure the price of present flash tech will drop like a rock once SDXC gets a foothold. I don't forsee a 2TB DAP but Apple has been hinting at a 128 gig touch for a while. 32 gig flash players used to be outragously expensive, now the 64 gigs are priced high. I bought my 32gig Zen for less than $150.00, when the 32gig Zen was originally released it was twice that.
Anyway price per gig should drop.Besides, even with FLAC, could anyone fill a 2TB Dap with music, maybe all the music in the Smithsonian would fit, who knows?
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post #7 of 10
1/7/11 at 10:48am

Ironically it's been over 2 years since the SDXC technology was revealed at CES, getting the industry (and myself) in a tizzy, drunk on the possibilities of 2TB cards. They are finally debuting the 128GB card at CES this week.

Engadget reports:

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Man, it feels like yesterday that we first heard of SDXC and its mythical promise of providing 2TB of storage along with 300MBps transfers. Truth be told, that was at CES two years ago, and here we are 24 months later oohing and ahhing over 128GB. Ah, the pains of (sluggish) progress. Griping aside, we're fairly sure that professional video junkies will be more than elated to hear of Lexar Media's two newest cards. The 64GB and 128GB Class 10 SDXC cards "offer minimum guaranteed speeds of 133x (20MB per second)," and ship with a limited lifetime warranty. If all goes well, they'll be splashing down into retailers later this quarter, with price tags set for $399.99 (64GB) and $699.99 (128GB). Just to put that into perspective, SanDisk shipped a Class 4 (15MB/sec) 64GB SDXC card right around this time last year for $350, and it's now going for half of that on the street. Yeah, ouch.

More - N.Y. Times

So class 4 64GB SDXC available for around $175 supposedly. Still not a great price, but maybe enough for audiophile manufacturers to get cracking on making compatible hardware?


Edited by Fastnbulbous - 1/7/11 at 10:51am
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post #8 of 10
1/7/11 at 11:22am
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The upcoming CompactFlash version, under development by Nikon, Sony, and SanDisk, is designed to reach 500MB/sec transfer speeds and 6TB capacity.

 

 
We've seen  these kinds of promises before. Are they getting ahead of themselves? Will it happen before 2015? Where's my jetpack?
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post #9 of 10
1/7/11 at 3:30pm
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Originally Posted by Hsiu View Post
If you are the manufacturer, do you want people buy 1 player to hold his/her entire collection, or you want people to buy multiple PMP to each hold part of his/her collection.
I've never heard of somebody owning multiple media players to hold parts of their music collection. I just don't think there is a big demand for players that can hold a ton of music. I'd be interested to see the stats between hard drive ipods sold vs flash ipods sold, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.


Most people use mp3's and encode them at bit rates below 320. Or they buy them from itunes.Files encoded at such low bit rates don't take up a whole lot of room so most people buying mp3 players don't need the kind of space a 64 GB card would provide. Most people buying mp3 players probably don't even know that here is such a thing as lossless music files. Never mind Ogg Vorbis and WavPack hybrid would probably just blow their minds...

Until the masses start screaming for support for 64 GB cards we won't get it.

And come to think of it most people probably don't know that there even are mp3 players that have SD/microSD card slots. And if they found out they would think anybody wanting one was nuts. They don't need that much space so why should anybody else?

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post #10 of 10
1/8/11 at 7:48am

Most people don't buy audiophile DAP/PMPs, but they are manufactured and sold anyway.


Edited by Fastnbulbous - 1/8/11 at 7:52am
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