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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: John Trader who wrote (62154)3/17/2002 8:11:46 PM
From: Robert O  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
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re: "Around 2005, digital video, for example, will be stored in 5-Gigabyte memory cards, and memory cards will completely replace CDs and other rotating optical media sometime thereafter," he said.

I certainly was hoping for far more than 5 Gig by 2005 for digital video. Unless something else changes (and by no means am I knowledgeable in this area) it seems to me something like a mega-memory card that intends to replace digital video CDs needs a lot more capacity for storage. I figured DVD type storage that can currently play an entire 3-hour Hollywood schlock movie would be available to write to for home use.

My current Sony digital video camera can hold 1 hour of digital video on 1 special digital tape in its housing, but when I convert that onto my PC it appears than 5 mins of converted video takes about a gig of hard disk space. Am I confusing this 1 gig size with memory size? In any event maybe there will be much better digital shrinking algorithms developed by then, but I was really hoping your average Joe would have few issues with storing digital video/sound media by 2005. Something in the camera itself, call it a 'stick' (memory card) or call it read/write-able media, that could handle say 5 hours of digital video input directly to the camera, that could easily be inserted into a PC slot, that's the ideal. Today it's always the space issue not to mention time.

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