James Delahunty
9 Jan 2009 21:16
The SD Association has made several predictions and some promises at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The consortium which includes well-known corporations such as SanDisk and Hewlett-Packard, invites you to imagine storing up to 100 High-definition movies on a memory card about the size of a stamp, and being able to access that content easily with a variety of consumer electrionics products.
Basically, the goal is to offer a card dubbed SDXC (Secure-Digital eXtended Capacity) which offers a huge 2 terabytes of storage capacity, or around 2,000GB, in about five years time. Until then, SDXC cards will be released with increasing storage capabilities until the 2TB goal is reached, with the first expected late in 2009, offering 64GB storage.
"The SD interface already has proven itself valuable in mobile phones. Now, SDXC memory card capabilities will spur further handset sophistication and boost consumer content demand," James Taylor, president of the SD Association, said at CES 2009. SD cards currently grip about 80 percent of the memory card market, according to the consortium. It estimates that a 2TB SDXC card could hold up to 100 HD movies, 480 hours of professional-quality audio content, or 136,000 "fine-mode" photos.
"Improvements in interface speed allow further increases in continuous shooting speed and higher resolution movie recordings," Shigeto Kanda, general manager at Canon, said while commenting on how the SDXC card (which retains the exact shape and size of SD cards) will help to further the potential of Canon products.