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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation
WDC 157.75+0.4%Nov 14 3:59 PM EST
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To: astyanax who wrote (11776)6/4/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Doren  Read Replies (3) of 60323
 
DataPlay's 500-megabyte disks can hold four hours of CD-quality music

Hi,

My qualifications: Several years ago I worked for Tower Records in Sacramento where it started and where it is headquartered. I know the owner/founder Russ Soloman, who showed me one of the first CDs manufactured before they started to retail them. I worked there because I'm a music buff, not for the money. I'm now a digital designer with several computers, scanners, drives, digital video camera.

I agree that DataPlay's tech is too cumbersome and probably too late to compete with SanDisk.

good stuff about SanDisk:

1) the music industry is bigger than the movie industry
2) CDs do not have the quality of sound of vinyl, however the convenience factor made them the media of choice for now. MP3s DO NOT have "CD" quality sound in general but for non-fanatics the sound is adequate.

MP3s are even more convenient as they are small enough to be traded over the net even on a slow connection. The fact that CDs can 'jiggle' in a portable device makes MP3 flash technology even more convenient.

CDs have 12 or so songs on them. An MP3 CD can hold possibly a hundred songs.

3) there is no doubt that digital camera's will replace film cameras in all but the lowest and highest end of the markets
4) net enabled cell phones are coming
5) personally I think the scalability and non-mecanical nature of flash memory is a big plus.
6) I wish I had flashmemory capability on my computer. If I could store a program like Photoshop on a flashdisk it would open way faster. Over the course of a year that would save me a LOT of time.

Net phones are going to be MP3 enabled. If you take this to its logical end they will probably be photo enabled also. We are probably entering an era where people will carry a device that does a wide variety of things and will need a lot of memory.

The things that worry me about this company are:

1) the fact that they are fabless (other than Toshiba)
2) iomega owns the zip market, at one point Fuji was ready to sell zips for $4 and make a profit, despite that fact, iomega has not been able to capitalize on zips in a very success manner
3) SanDisk doesn't quite own the market yet, and due to the fact that they are fabless they may never own it.

Questions:

1) are there USB/firewire/etc. read/write machines for this tech for both Macs and PCs and if so how much?

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