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    SD to replace CD?

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    The Gruvi MicroSD is a new SD (secure digital) media card aimed squarely at the music market; in fact, aiming squarely to replace the CD format. The Gruvi cards, which are copy protected by SanDisk's proprietary "TrustedFlash", will fit and play in cell phones, mobile devices, and laptops, and come with up to 2GB of memory. And, says Gruvi MicroSD manufacturer SanDisk, no less than the Rolling Stones have already signed on...
    Read the rest of the article here http://channels.lockergnome.com/news...usic_cds.phtml

    Interesting concept don't you think.
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    intersting yes, but not likely to replace CDs...maybe as a cheaper alternative? people would need new hardware though, and while it may be cheap for PCs i doubt that hi-fi equipment to support it would be, and i seriously doubt that hi-fi enthusiasts would go for it..

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    well, it would be less easy to scratch a memory card though wouldn't it...
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    they are looking to retail them at $40 though...much more expensive than your average CD

    If it were cheaper it might take off..but at $40 a go..

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    2 gig a time? i spose it could work, but imo they're TOO small - too easy to loose etc - a minidisk was a much better form factor
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    Sounds like a good idea to me....at 2GB you could have multiple albums at cd quality or 1 album at a higher bitrate and/or multichannel.

    Still, the price needs to be the same as CDs.
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    i was thinking about this for a long time. thinking about new ways material could be released and i thought rather than a type of flash card... albums could be released on usb dongles. then you would need no updated hardware for computers.
    it'd be like buying the cd online but you get something that is copy protected and something you can hold for what u payed for.
    plus you could just plug it in and play. and they already have the technology to play them from just plugging into stuff, there are car cd players on ebay with usb ports for usb dongles. it'd be easy to intergrate that to stereos and voila.
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    The main problem with SD overtaking CDs is simply the cost. Sure it's reuseable - but how many people want to buy their music on reuseable media?
    More significantly, most people have stereos that have CD players in, so there's a lot of momentum to overcome, and most of the downloadable distribution concepts include rather hefty Digital Rights Management components that stop you playing back the music on random, no-name players, and instead you can only listen to them on authorised Windows PCs, or burn them to a CD...

    The price would need to be CHEAPER than a CD, because of the greater restrictions on use... and this is something that most of the companies involved seem to be unwilling to acknowledge.
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    Moreover, there would need to be something worth buying, which is the whole problem with the music industry at the moment..
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    it sounds a decent idea, as its obviously more space than a CD, tougher than a CD and smaller than a CD (to fit in smaller devices)

    But will there come a point when they can make them as cheap as a CD? i would guess no, therefore its a non-starter.

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    They may have good intentions with this media card thingy, but I find it very difficult to see the mainstream punters picking it up, for the same reasons BetaMax, DVD-Audio, ATRAC and what not have all failed...

    And that is cost; the cost of new hardware and most obviously change...

    I'd imagine people who have just spent £250 - £500 on their almost up to date Hi-Fi systems would be very hesitant to shell out ANOTHER £15 - £50 on a media card reader addon for their system, when CDs are already a tried, tested, significantly cheaper and accepted medium...

    I'm not completely dismissing the idea totally though, good luck to them, I should think it will be aimed squarely at school children (who will nag their parents for one to death) and the people with more money than sense...

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    CD,s are chuffing annoying tho just the wrong size to bung in your pocket and they need a case. Minidisks are perfect size and shape imho - not too small so they get lost either.

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    I think something may happen with SD cards, which are not too small, and a whole album could go onto 128mb cards in good quality (192kbps) and it wouldn't cost too much, and if they became even more mass produced then they would surely be available cheap enough!

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    Quote Originally Posted by eloquence
    The main problem with SD overtaking CDs is simply the cost. Sure it's reuseable - but how many people want to buy their music on reuseable media?
    Everything gets cheep when they are made in large enough quantities. But then they don't have to be reusable anyway. The non-reusable ones are much cheeper to make. Like the N-gage ones. The data on them is less volitile then to (an less easier to delete by mistake too).

    I think it's an awesome idea. Could see the convergence of downloaded music and shop bought music into one easy device.

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