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SanDisk 4GB Ultra II SDHC card

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Tuesday 26th, September 2006

SanDisk Corporation today introduced a 4-gigabyte (GB) SanDisk Ultra II SD High Capacity (SDHC) card to meet the growing demand for higher capacity storage. The new cards can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video. The announcement was made at the Photokina trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Hall 6, Stand D78/E79. The SanDisk Ultra II SDHC card features write speeds of 9 megabytes (MB) per second and read speeds of 10MB/sec. The cards are targeted at digital photography enthusiasts with 5 mega-pixel or higher resolution digital cameras or videographers with camcorders that require significantly faster flash storage cards.

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Canon media storage device M80

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Tuesday 26th, September 2006

Canon today launches the portable Canon Media Storage M80 device. Designed with EOS and other digital photographers in mind, the units feature a large ultra-bright 3.7-inch TFT screen with 160º viewing angle for image and video review, and a 80GB hard disk to store digital images, movie and sound files of various file formats. The Canon M80 unit features a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface and slots for CF and SD cards. With its tough, robust magnesium alloy body and intuitive navigation familiar to EOS owners, the Canon M80 media storage device adds an important link to the workflow chain of professional photojournalists and photographers on location, outdoor and expedition shoots.

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SanDisk Extreme III 16GB

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Tuesday 26th, September 2006

SanDisk introduced the 12- and 16-gigabyte (GB) SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards to its award-winning Extreme III performance line, making these the highest capacity cards in the world. The new high-performance, large-capacity cards are ideal for professional photographers who shoot RAW or high-resolution JPG files and need the performance, reliability and capacity to capture these large files. The new SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards can also be used with the Grass Valley Infinity Series Digital Media Camcorder, the first camcorder introduced in the broadcast industry that uses non-proprietary, removable, solid-state flash memory cards as recording and playback media.

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Canon media storage device M30

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Tuesday 26th, September 2006

Canon today launches the portable Canon Media Storage M30 device. Designed with EOS and other digital photographers in mind, the units feature a large ultra-bright 3.7-inch TFT screen with 160º viewing angle for image and video review, and a 30GB hard disk to store digital images, movie and sound files of various file formats. The Canon M30 unit features a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface and slots for CF and SD cards. With its tough, robust magnesium alloy body and intuitive navigation familiar to EOS owners, the Canon M30 media storage device adds an important link to the workflow chain of professional photojournalists and photographers on location, outdoor and expedition shoots.

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Pretec 16GB CompactFlash card

Posted by: Mark Peters Tuesday 26th, September 2006

Pretec, world record holder of the highest capacity flash memory cards of CF card (12GB), USB Flash Drive (16GB), and Secure Digital card (8GB), has now released 16GB CF card, the first and highest capacity CompactFlash card in the world today at Photokina 2006 (Booth Hall 6, A069). The demand for higher capacity and better performing flash cards has been increasing in our daily lives with introduction of ever higher resolution digital cameras and the emergence of new multimedia appliances and industrial applications. Over the last 10 years CompactFlash has seen a 4,000 times increase in capacity from the first announcement of Pretec 4MB CompactFlash card to today’s 16 GB.

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GigaBank 120GB External Hard Disk

Posted by: Mark Peters Tuesday 26th, September 2006

I/OMagic launched its GigaBank Ultra 120, a portable hard disk drive with single-touch back-up operation today. The 2.5" 120GB portable hard drive disk is perfect for the "on the go" lifestyle. The GigaBank Ultra 120 is small enough to take anywhere conveniently and will hold any data -- from essential business files to photos and music. Introductory MSRP is $159.99. I/OMagic Corporation, a leading provider of data storage products, announced today that it has expanded its mobile storage line-up with the availability of a GigaBank Ultra 120, a portable hard disk drive with a push-button back-up operation. The 2.5" 120GB portable hard drive disk is perfect for the “on the go” lifestyle.

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Microdia 4GB SDHC

Posted by: Mark Peters Monday 25th, September 2006

Microdia is now taking orders for its latest 4.0GB SDHC cards; with estimated delivery of within 1 week from receipt of order confirmation. Having a suggested retail price of around 170 USD, this new Microdia memory card conforms to the SD memory card Ver.2.00 standard introduced by the SD Card Association earlier this year. With a capacity of 4.0GB, this new Microdia SDHC card can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 digital video. No doubt, this card will meet the requirements of the most demanding digital photographers. Microdia confirms that the new Secure Digital HC cards will be 100% fully compatible with SDHC devices.

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Kingston content-on-card program

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Sunday 24th, September 2006

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., today announced the availability of a new content-on-card program to support the needs of companies wanting to add value to their products or promotions by using customized Kingston Flash memory cards and USB drives. The new program offers custom content loading, packaging and logistics for digital entertainment producers, software developers and any business that wants to provide content on new media to gain a competitive edge and deliver a unique solution in any market using today's latest portable storage media. Kingston's reputation for quality products and longstanding relationships with suppliers ensures the continuity and reliability.

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Storage was and is an important factor of today’s imaging world. When we look at the flash card solutions, we see an impressive increase of storage capacity and a considerable drop in price. Moreover, flash memory becomes an important medium for today’s digital camcorder. Thanks to the fact that the usage of flash memory cards, less energy is needed and the data is protected in a better way against shocks from outside. Flash memory is also the one and only storage medium for the mobile phone. Where the digital camera was the driver for flash memory, the mobile phone is without a doubt today’s driver. Other storage solutions are Blue-ray, hard disks and even online storage. Due to the increase of high resolution material, HD movie recording or hi-res photo shooting, more data need to be stored and archived, so the demand for hi-speed storage and large storage capacities continues to increase significantly. At the Photokina 2008 show, all storage manufactures will introduce and unveil their latest storage solutions.






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