Flash Drives
Submitted: Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 10:48
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When I first got one of these little gadgets I think it was about 64mb and thought wow this is fantastic , 44 floppy discs on one thing, and even then as soon as I seen them I used to dream of having a car radio with a USB port on the front for playing MP3s,
well thats what the way it is now, So then along came the 1gb, then 2gb, Now one can get a 16gb flash drive , Corsair 16GB Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive , So do I see the demise of the CDs and Hard Drives ..I think Yes.The days of listening to our music on a thing that turns is just about done, I did have a Cylinder record once until it got broke, then we had the 78rpm, reel to reel tapes, 12inch LPs in 16 and 33 1/3rd rpm, 45 singles and EPs, 8 track cartriges, Cassettes, CDs, iPODS, all of which have to turn to produce music, Now we have Flash Drives, no jump, No skip, Corrugations are a breeze,I wonder what's going to be next, Can it be better than a Flash Drive, today I can't see that but who knows what the future will bring., couple of Movies would fit on a 16gb drive
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Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 16:44
Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 16:44
One of my hobbies is the digital remastering of records, those are the flat discs with a hole in the middle....Now I waltz into tricky dickys this morning and notice that there is on sale a
turntable and CD recorder all in one for about $500.... My way is best, I get the real feel for the performer, yep I have an mp3 player that is great when I go for walks as it hold much more than I can carry...
The USB flash drives are great though, like a woman has her entire life held within the confines of her hand bag I can hold
mine in a flashdrive haning around my neck...
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Reply By: RichieK - Monday, May 21, 2007 at 19:12
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 19:12
What about the price? I remember when they came out a 64 or 128MB flash drive was over $50 - yesterday I saw 1GB (or was it 2GB?) drives at 3 for $50..
Bit like how a decent 26inch colour TV about 6 years ago was $1500 - now they are about $250.. I remember paying $800 for an Akai hi-fi VCR about 15 years ago - now they can't give them away. Paid $500 for my first dvd player...I'm sure Blu-Ray players will be down to a couple of hundred by Xmas next year
While I'm at it - does anybody else hate the way you put a dvd into your machine and you have to go through about 2 mins of warnings, musical intros and whiz-bang graphics before the menu finally arrives? When will someone make a disc that (apart from maybe a 5 sec copyright warning) starts playing the movie immediately? If we want the menu, we will PUSH THE MENU BUTTON THE REMOTE!!!!!! (Excuse the shouting - I feel much better now....)
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Follow Up By: Truckster (Vic) - Monday, May 21, 2007 at 21:20
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 21:20
>When will someone make a disc that (apart from maybe a 5 sec copyright warning) starts playing the movie immediately?
I make them like this everytime lmao.. gotta love torrents.
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