Will SD Cards Replace DVDs?

[halfpower]

SD cards now have a capacity nearly equal to a dual layer DVD. They're smaller, lighter, and require no moving parts to operate. If the price comes down sufficiently, which I think it might, then it could mean the end of CDs and DVDs. In particular, this might have implications for notebooks. The funny thing is that I never expected this.

Do you think memory cards such as SD cards will replace DVDs?

 

[Zolty]

DVDs cost around $1 to write data to, a 1GB SD card costs around $10-20, by the time SD cards are cheap enough to actively replace DVDs we will be using HD media, and SD cards will be playing the catch up game.

 

[MarcVenice]

Sd cards definately have a big future ahead of them, they are allready being used in cheap notebooks that are build around the smallest amount of energy consumption. But they won't replace dvd's or hd-dvd's and bluray. People want to store things like movies, dvd's and such are storage media, and SD cards aren't, they are more of a easily acessible, lightweight mobile medium.

 

[halfpower]

What's HD media?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: halfpower
What's HD media?

??? Blu-Ray (50GB) and HD-DVD (30GB).

 

[stogez]

Actually all storage cards will be replaced with one standard format.
Mi-Card

 

[Zepper]

4GB SD cards aren't cheap, 4gb blank DVDs are... IOW, not any time soon.

.bh.