The end of DV tape in sight??

[bert6280]

MiCard standard chosen for next-gen media cards - vnunet.com

[Mark W]

Solid state is the future for sure, but it's a few years away, like 5, for most of us I think.

Pana have that great cam that takes p2 cards but the costs are huge, record 10 mins for £800 or thereabouts.

Some pana eng cams are using lots and lots of cards.

Solid state is the future - but at present emory costs too much, but it can only get cheaper in a moores law sort of way, I think, or maybe its bobs law for memory. I dunno.

[bert6280]

It just makes my head spin to think that they could one day produce a memory card not much bigger than a thumbnail that can hold 2 Terabytes of data!

Makes 2 GB cards look pathetic.

Coupled with a data transfer speed of 480Mbps, just one of these incorporated into a DV camera would produce something amazing. It could easily manage the data rates associated with HDV (and better), and would have a storage capacity equivalent to 40 miniDV tapes.

Makes P2 look crap too....

And then there's the other story shown at the above link; Via have come up with a fully-featured motherboard the size of a playing card!

[irishmark]

Its still gonna be years even in broadcast till dv is completely out.

While there are still independant documentary film makers out there doing stuff on a show string budget - dvtape will live on.

Even HD is still shot on DV anyways..

Certainly the claims of that card is incredible - 2,048GB on a card? Amazing!