Kingston bringing films to a flash drive near you

Do you think Blu-Ray will be the shortest format that ever lived?

Surely these will replace Blu-Ray in no time. Afterall, who wants a disk that has to spin up and down when you can have the HD movie on an instant access flash drive type thing.

By Grunthos on 6 Nov 2009

Corporate twaddle

...as part of a value-added bundled package...

Can anyone actually define what this nonsense means?

By davidbryant4 on 6 Nov 2009

Please dont screw it up!

This is an excellent idea on the surface, HD films to transfer straight to my mdia center PC however I just know that it will include some hideous DRM measure that will cripple the whole idea.

By JStairmand on 6 Nov 2009

Corporate twaddle

...as part of a value-added bundled package...

Can anyone actually define what this nonsense means?

By davidbryant4 on 6 Nov 2009

@Grunthos

I'm not so convinced that Blu-Ray will be short lived. While us geeks may be happy to download films or buy them on a memory sticks, I think the average Jo Public is much happier with a silver disk. Actually, come to that, I am too. I tend to keep my computer and my entertainment system separate, and I prefer not to spend my hard-earned copper on mere electrons.

By jgwilliams on 6 Nov 2009

@Grunthos - I agree with you 100% - Memory cards are shrinking in size and increasing in capacity and will no doubt be around a lot longer than and type of spin-up media - especially in smaller devices - Panasonic sell TV's with SD Card slots built in (They have been on sale for over a year) - you can already pretty much watch whatever HQ film you have straight from the card slot.
The future is here for Memory Cards - I think the USB sticks are worth it too, but overall I would rather use a memory card - there are also a number of devices sold by sandisk which allow you to record any tv onto SD cards.

But at the moment Blu_ray Devices will mostly be used for backing up larger data amounts for companies - we should never really stop using a technology - we might learn new things from them.

By nicomo on 6 Nov 2009

HD is about quality and that means large files, you could just about squeeze a short blu ray film onto a 32gb flash drive, a 7:1 lossless audio track would struggle to fit on an avg flash drive.

If you have invested alot of money in a HD setup you want the best quality you can get and thats Blu Ray currently

By EricP on 7 Nov 2009

portable devices that usually only have small screens do not warant bd quality. divx on a flash drive, with 1gb is fine.

By invalidscreenname on 9 Nov 2009