Tuesday, September 28, 2004
1GB xD Picture Card
Posted by James Fee in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
"Olympus Corporation and Fuji Picture Film Corporation announced on the 27th that they have developed the first 1GB xD-Picture Card media. Both companies plan to release products in the Spring of 2005. The price has not yet been decided. Using a high-capacity technology called "MLC ( Multi Level Cell)" that stores multiple bits in a single memory cell, the small-sized card has a 1GB capacity. According to the companies, this development allows for a capacity of up to 8GB. The product name, for Olympus, will be "M-XD1GM." For Fujifilm, it will be "xD-Picture Card M1GB." The "M" in "M 1GB" represents the usage of MLC technology. Furthermore, Olympus has announced that compatibility with existing products "may require a firmware upgrade, or not be supported at all."
For those of you who are not able to get the 4GB CF card Jason posted about this morning and are stuck using xD-Picture Cards, there is good news from Japan. With digital powerhouses Olympus and Fujifilm, the xD-Picture Card format looks like it is really taking off. *cough*
For those of you who are not able to get the 4GB CF card Jason posted about this morning and are stuck using xD-Picture Cards, there is good news from Japan. With digital powerhouses Olympus and Fujifilm, the xD-Picture Card format looks like it is really taking off. *cough*
