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Summary: What is Sony thinking? Another Betamax?
Review: Are you kidding me? I don't understand how Memory Stick Pro is not compatible with my current Sony products? The new cards are finally offering me the capacity I need but I can't use them without upgrading product!! Can you spell F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-N-G!! Talk about getting left in the lurch. I have been a loyal Sony product buyer for years, but am thinking about making a switch. I did some research and it seems there are a lot more choices out there that support the same - if not more and better products - and the media capacity is just as good and works with all products available. I checked out a new Panasonic camera and a Palm that supports SD - I'm making the switch.Don't think Memory Stick Pro format won't last if they keep this up.
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Summary: Don't waste your money!
Review: I figure a 512MB stick replaces four 128MB memory sticks that sell for $70 dollars each. That is about $280. No brainer there. Get the large memory stick. I use this stick with my Sony F717 and I can finally take between 194-7500 pictures depending on the resolution I select. With digital cameras, storage is valuable. An added bonus is that the memory stick is quick. I notice a speed difference when writing to and reading from the memory stick pro vs. the regular memory stick. Very nice!
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Summary: Works as advertised, but some caveats
Review: I picked this up for use with my recently purchased Sony digital camera, and it works great. Unfortunately almost all Sony products manufactured before 2003 cannot use these new high-capacity Memory Sticks. Another sticking point is that only 460MB is usable on this stick, losing a whopping 52MB to the file system and Magic Gate overhead. I also own a 256MB version, and that has 220MB free. Write speeds are noticeably faster compared to the older Memory Stick media, as well as read speeds in my USB 2.0 reader. Luckily the price has come down on these, and if your hardware can support it, these new Memory Sticks are worth picking up.
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Summary: Memory Sticks Are Ill Conceived
Review: There are too many incompatibilities in the Memory Stick format. Sony obviously failed to properly plan and design the memory stick. After waiting over 2 years for them to brake the 128MB barrier (which they had promised) the new cards were incompatible with the old cameras. On some cards you can transfer MP3 music, on others you can't (some sort of Memory Stick police I guess). Some memory sizes will work on some equipment, but not others. Lots of other idiosynchrasies - like Duo, two 128MB in one, and other incompatibilities too confusing to keep track of. Sony should forget the Memory stick which it badly mangled and instead stick to compact flash and SD cards where compatibility is not as much of an issue.
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Summary: Don't waste your money!
Review: This won't work in pre-2003 Sony devices, as Sony made a design mistake on original memory stick (and kept its consumers in dark). Neither would existing card readers work. These sticks contain MagicGate protection. This means that you won't get even 488 MegaBytes of actual space from this 512 MillionBytes stick. MagicGate uses up significant space (40MB) and create all kinds of hassles in transfers of things like mp3's. But wait that's not all, these sticks are kinda obsolete already. These won't work in any SonyEricsson cell phones or smaller Sony devices like Stick Walkman & newer U series Cybershot cameras. If you want to invest in sticks buy a MS Duo Pro stick, the latest of half a dozen stick formats from Sony. (Soon most cell phones will have a slot for removable flash media) Or you can say no to all Sony devices and buy SD/MMC based gadgets to avoid all these hassles.
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