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By putting movie formats on SD chips instead of DVD's or even now Blue ray. the SD chips are already becoming cheaper and cheaper to produce and in the near future should be cost effective to put movies onto. Now they could be used for Music CDs since they don't need as large of SD memory. You can buy
1GB memory chips online for just a few dollars at retail, so in bulk they could probably be purchased at a fraction of that already.
I think its beneficial because they don't damage as easily as Discs, and there much more compact and easier to carry around. the drives for them are cheap and much smaller and lighter as well. A SD card player could be the size of a match box.
Creative Zen
http://uk.europe.cr...y=214&product=16999
[coprocephalous, Jul 09 2008]
Watch out, I got flogged for suggesting games be sold on Flash Drives
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[simonj, Jul 10 2008]
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You mean like a Creative Zen [linky]?
This takes SD cards and plays back movies.
It's about the size of a large matchbox, but without the useful sandpaper strip. |
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I would want this to play on my TV. |
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// without the useful sandpaper strip. // |
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That seems a curious and inexplicable omisssion. How do you get the matches to strike ? |
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Not merely inexplicable, but inexcusable. |
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My old Sharp Zaurus had an accessory (~$400) that I never got, which would convert any input into an MP4 formatted for the Zaurus screen and stored it on CF cards. Since all this is now reasonably old tech, you can probably pick all the parts up cheap. And MAN can you get huge CF cards now. |
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The other thing is there is software that will RIP a DVD for your iPod. I did that for my boss and he amazed his travel companions with Patton playing on a 2.5" screen. |
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There are also some apps that will let you watch your home TV & DVR on your phone. |
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So I'd say this is baked. |
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// without the useful sandpaper strip. // |
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That strip is actually a type of sulfur that is a component to the type of sulfur on the matches. The combination of the sulfur compounds ignite a fire. Not just a rough sandpaper surface alone. |
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The price could be significantly reduced if the movies were on ROM cards rather than ordinary rewritable SD cards. |
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//That strip is actually a type of sulfur //
[checks box of Swan Vestas] Nope, that strip is actually sandpaper. Silica, not sulphur. |
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//sulfur// I think you mean phosphorus. The sulphur is all in the match head. |
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At Christmas, my Grandfather always used to amaze us with a box of giant matches. |
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Who'd have thought [8th_of_7], of all people, preferred
safety matches to the other kind? |
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How d'you figure that, [mouseposture]?
The talk was of sandpaper. |
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Real Men strike their Swan Vestas on their boot, zip, or stubble. |
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[coprocephalous] //How do you get the matches to strike ?//
is only a problem with safety matches, which, as [JScotty]
pointed out are designed to be struck on that strip of
sandpaper and nowhere else (except I think it's phosphorous,
not sulphur). With strike-anywhere matches, as [pocmloc]
pointed out, you don't need the sandpaper. I figured [8th]
would object on principle to pyrotechnics that are
deliberately made difficult to ignite in the interests of
safety. |
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//is only a problem with safety matches, which, as [JScotty] pointed out are designed to be struck on that strip of sandpaper //
I think you may have misunderstood the "safety" bit in "safety matches".
Because they are "safe", they don't strike on sandpaper. |
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Sorry for going on-topic, but rather unsurprisingly, yesterday i stuck a mini-SD card with a video on it into a card reader, stuck the reader into the USB slot on a DVD player, and it played. A card reader built into a DVD player would make it even bakeder. |
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However, i very much like the idea of no moving parts and optical disc drives are very annoying, so dispensing with the mechanical bits of a DVD player would be the grooviest. |
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An SD card is getting some wear on the contacts every time you slide it in and out, but probably not enough to keep you from watching a movie until your head explodes. |
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This reminds me of the time I went around trying to buy one of those MP3 players that you could stick a thumb-drive into. Turned out they didn't exist--it was just so obvious a thing to make that I assumed it existed. I got scoffed at for wanting such a thing, now my phone plays music off a mini-SD chip. So bun for this. |
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So [Ian], if i chose to make a short porn video and post it out to people on SD cards, that would make it baked? |
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QR code? Otherwise it's effectively impossible without packaging. |
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