Comments on: Vmedia’s Mini Optical Coming to Netbooks and Beyond

By: james braselton

james braselton — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:40:59 +0000

HI THERE IT DOSE NOT MAKE SENCE YOU CAN GET A 32 GB SD SOO 1 GB DOSE NOT HOLD ANY THING NOW A DAYS MAY BE WHEN THAT TECHNOLOGYIES HOLD TB TERABYTES NOT GEGABYTES THEN WE MAY CONSIDER

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:06:09 +0000

best news in 2009 so far. As an already big fan of the Sony Hi-MD Wakman the Vmedia Walkman would be even better…
Double Layer…Blu-Ray…. Can’t wait for it…

By: KC Kim

KC Kim — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:44:57 +0000

This looks just like like the quarter size Dataplay discs that were already released but failed before it ever got started. I wonder if they bought the technology or something.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:26:19 +0000

This has to be a joke, this is seriously a stupid idea! 1gb storage? Even if it is cheaper to make, the savings arent going to pass onto the consumers. This is pretty much a shit version of the UMD

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:35:16 +0000

Movie distributors would like this kind of thing because it’s very cheap to make disks – I’d expect a 1GB disk/cartridge like this to cost 25 cents to make; while a 1GB SD card costs more than 10 times that, plus the time required to copy over the protected content.

I’m sure there are people who would buy this form-factor for convenience, rather than rip and copy to SD. Not me, but someone. After all, many people still buy bottled water. . . .

By: Deadpan

Deadpan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:43:08 +0000

Capacity up to 2gb. Wow! Welcome to 1994!
In an age where SD slots are becoming standard on netbooks and larger devices, and the ubiquitous USB thumbdrive has replaced optical drives for data storage, all I can really do is look at this get the urge to smack some people upside their noggins.

By: Nikropht

Nikropht — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:55:13 +0000

Did we just timewarp back to the mid 1990′s?

By: Blabble

Blabble — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:38:39 +0000

GIGA FLOP!

Waste of development costs.

FAIL!

By: henhen

henhen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:35:00 +0000

8-track tapes, beta tapes, hd-dvd, now v-media.

this company is looking to make money from licensing etc., and dont realize what crap they’re saying to sell this tech…

you have a movie on a sd card and it wont play? thats their main selling point?!! click the damn icon dummy and make sure your media player is up to date!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:42:22 +0000

The right hand photo in the second row says it all: this technology is larger, less dense and mechanical, compared to the smaller, solid state SD card to its right.

Why would *anyone* even consider using this obsolete technology?

Proprietary codecs do not mandate proprietary media. In any case, you could distribute at least four times as much protected content on and SD card.

This company is deluding itself and I predict the next year will be unpleasant for their staff.