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more about #sd DustyButt™: How would this compare to the transfer speed of a Bluray disc? more » Nitesh Singh: Just like SATA-III based mechanical hard drives all reach 600MB/s? Ha. The 300MB/s is merely the limit of the interface, the cards wont be that fast ... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Bah, I have my SmartMedia card, and I like it just fine! more » Fractal the Meek: *raises hand* Can Matt or someone explain the durability comment from their experience? What's not durable about SD cards? more » dimsum4u: So I would like to provide some insight to this bit of tech. Mark brings up a lot of good points. Would like to refute a few of them. Titles: Current... more » BoomingEchoes: Frankly the way I see it is this: If it isn't convenient for you to use then don't use it and show them how bad it is with the lack of profits. Even ... more » maven2k: Wow, 5 years ago this would've been ground breaking. Day late and a dollar short again BB. #blockbuster more » Purple Dave: For mini-SD and micro-SD users, all you'd need to do is make sure to pack one of those SD-sized card readers (assuming they _don't_ give you an SD car... more » skim32: This is utter nonsense and will completely fail. I estimate this time next year there will be no blockbuster. Like many have brought up, copying a g... more » AkkiRonin: What a great place to release a virus into the wild.... a movie kiosk at an airport. #blockbuster more » camneil01: What if I use my microSD to SD adapter? #blockbuster more » edison234: Hey my printer has an SD slot. I think I'll watch a movie on that LCD screen! Hot DAMN. Just because a device has an LCD screen doesn't make it a gre... more » szrimaging: Umm....multi card readers aren't THAT expensive. Why not add in a multicard reader, and a USB drive so that I can use a thumbdrive? And doesn't the e... more » perfectTheo: How many microSD cards come without an SD converter?? I am pretty sure that i have never seen one. its always smart to carry the converter around when... more » met2art: Digital rentals? P'shaw! The best part of the rental process was having the surly yet vapid clerk look at my rental choice as though I must be a lobot... more » Spaceknight: This is familiar. DRM protected movie on a physical media source. Didn't DIVX discs prove this a failure?? more » Canoehead: What is the copy time - how long do you have to stand in front of the machine? #blockbuster more » Skunky: My G1 takes a form of SD, it's not Blockbusters fault you picked the wrong phone to watch movies on......or for that matter the wrong type of device i... more » HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: I haven't bought a MicroSD card yet that didn't come with an SD adapter. Some of them come with a MiniSD adapter too. I'd be more concerned about th... more » Noobs-R-Us: They shouldn't limit themselves to SD. The dock should also have jacks so you can connect USB, MiniUSB, Apple etc. So that any device can connect to i... more » -
#storage
SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
I prefer CompactFlash cards to SD, despite the bulk, for speed and durability. (Also, I shoot with big cameras that take big cards.) SD card version 4.0 fixes the speed issue, with transfer speeds of up to 300MB a second. More » -
#movies
Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies on SD Cards! Hahahahaha! From Kiosks!
Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM'd movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! More » -
#wii
Nintendo Opens SDHC to Bootable DLC
Nintendo's decision to eschew a standalone Wii hard drive for the support of SDHC was a good one, as users can buy tiny and cheap 32GB SDHC cards to expand storage. But what just you could store was in question. More » -
#kddi
Wi-Fi MicroSD Card Makes Eye-Fi Look Obese
Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they're exactly like that, except, well, much smaller. More » -
#storage
Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four microSDs In RAID
The new CompactFlash adapter from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More » -
#flashmemory
SanDisk Claims Title of World's Fastest 32GB SDHC Card
The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world's fastest. More » -
#macbookpro
MacBook Pro 2009 Review
You know those Microsoft laptop hunter spots? Apple may already have responded with TV spots of their own, but these MacBook Pros strike back at Microsoft better than any ad can: by doing. More » -
#apple
New MacBook Pros Can Boot From Their Internal SD Slot
Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single,extremelycool trick up its sleeve (slot?): it's bootable. More » -
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#apple
New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Features 7-Hour Battery Life and SD Card Slot
Apple just announced new MacBook Pro models with the same upgraded, 7-hour battery life as the 17-inch MacBook Pro, a bump in memory, processor, and storage, as well as an SD-card slot. Most importantly, they'll be shipping today. Yes!
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#usb
LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang
USB flash media readers aren't exactly ripe for innovation, so it's rare that they surprise us in a way that doesn't inspire laughter. But 69ing two readers into one compact, featureless lump? That's kinda genius. More » -
#peripherals
Rubik's Cube Card Reader Will Only Make You Look Smarter
Of course, it's not an officially licensed real Rubik's Cube (unless you're looking at the easiest Rubik's Cube in history), but Brando's "270˘X x 270 X Card Reader" comes close enough. More » -
#nintendo
Wii to Support SDHC, Not a Hard Drive
During Nintendo president Satoru Iwata's GDC keynote today, the company revealed that the Wii will finally get SDHC support (that means compatibility with bigger SD cards) through an update that's available now. More » -
#moreridiculouspackaging
Motorola Sends Teeny Ear Clips In Huge Cardboard Box
Giz reader Thomas just received two 2-inch Bluetooth earhooks from Motorola—in a 320-cubic-inch box. As he puts it, "the package was filled with about 99% air." Haven't they heard of envelopes? More pics: More » -
#sdxc
First SDXC Card Is The World's Fastest, Only Holds 32GB
SDXC, the new memory card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, storage-wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that'll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it's a step. More » -
#sd
Pen Reads Four SD Cards While Looking a Bit Like a Rocket
Thanko's 4-slot SD card reader/pen, but we're waiting for the 8-slot, double X-Wing version. No word on retail price, but we're sure it'll be available soon at various online import vendors. [Akihibara News] -
#digitalcameras
Eye-Fi Doubles Storage and Adds Video Support
Our beloved Eye-Fis (SD cards that add Wi-Fi to any digital camera) have finally gotten the bump from their 2GB standard. Now Eye-Fi cards hold 4GB of photos and upload videos to YouTube/Flickr. More » -
#peripherals
USB Cable Features Clever Inline SD Card Reader
Here's a simple, fantastic idea. This otherwise standard USB cable adorns its wire with an inline SD card reader, creating a 2-in-1 SD reader/USB cable. More » -
#cardreader
SanDisk ImageMate Card Readers Were Actually Designed
Whoa, these are card readers? Mundane but necessary gadgets deserve essentialized designs, and SanDisk's new ImageMate All-in-One and Multi-card look a lot like Neil Poulton's bare, black and glossy hard drives for LaCie. More » -
#gadgetporn
A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
One Flickr member ripped apart his broken Eye-Fi after being sent a replacement. No big surprises were found, but that gold bar on top? That's the integrated Wi-Fi antenna. Cool stuff, no? [Flickr via bbGadgets] -
#camcorders
RCA Small Wonder EZ209HD: $120 MicroSD High Def Recording
While RCA debuted their Small Wonder camcorders at CES 2008, the model they are showing off just a year later looks vastly improved. More »

