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Are P2 cards proprietary
Are P2 cards proprietary to Panasonic or can 3rd party companies also begin to produce these cards?
I found this link today.
https://www.macworld.com/news/2006/07/19/sandisk/index.php
They are not P2 cards but they sure sound like they are fast enough to capture the footage at about 1/2 the price.
-Lars
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The label “p2” is a Panasonic thing, so if someone wanted to call their product “P2” they’d have to license it. But there’s nothing stopping someone from coming up with their own, compatible product — that’s what specialized communications is doing with their CinePorter, for example.
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So other companies might some day make PCMCIA cards for the HVX-200. I know alot goes into these cards and that is why they cost so much even though the price has dropped on the cards.
Good to know, thanks.
-Lars
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I’ve wondered if a PCMCIA media reader with a flash memory card can be used. I’m too chicken to try it out on my own camera, but there are some pretty fast memory cards out the – 150X, etc.
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No that won’t work. Tried it, doesn’t work. The cards have all sorts of commands that they have to respond to, no generic flash reader is going to have the corresponding circuitry necessary.
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I figured as much. Thanks for trying this. at least one of us has cojones to try new things!
Just like the time 10 years ago that I paid $750 for 16MB of RAM (and thought I was getting a good deal), I just can’t help but think that one day we’ll all look back on P2 cards costing $500 – $1300 and say, “what were we thinking!!”
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I’m sure the prices will drop when the 16 gig P2 cards come out. I can’t see 16 gig cards costing $2600. Or some 3rd party figuring it out and creating less expensive cards causing the over all price to drop.
-Lars
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The cards will definitely drop. The 8gb was introduced at $2750, and by the time it shipped it’d dropped to $2200, and then dropped again (so it’s already dropped half its original price, $1400.) By the time the 16gb comes out I expect the 8gb will probably drop in half again, and the 16gb will start out at somewhere around $2200.
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