Goodbye optical discs, hello write-once memory cards!
November 21, 2007 at 9:16 pmEngadget posted yesterday about 1GB write-once memory cards from SanDisk that would cost around $5.99 USD. My first thought was that it would never work. Why buy a memory card you can only use once for $6 when you can buy a rewritable one for as little as say $15? It wouldn’t make sense. [...]
Tags: cd, dvd, memory cards, sandisk, sd cards, storage, technologyWhy are blank CDs so expensive?
November 8, 2007 at 11:42 pmI never thought I’d write something like this, but blank CDs are freaking expensive! It wasn’t long ago that I could care less about turning a CD into a coaster, but now I do care. I don’t know what changed, but for some reason CDs have become incredibly expensive relative to DVDs.
Here is the current [...]
The extinction of the CD
April 6, 2005 at 5:28 pmWhen’s the last time you played music with from a CD? I don’t remember the last time, to be honest. I play music from my computer almost 24/7, and when I’m out and about, I’ve either had my iPod or my Zen Touch. The concept of a disc that only holds 20 songs seems so [...]
Tags: cd, ipod, itunes, music, riaa
