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Old 11-04-07, 06:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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CF Vs SD for playing movies
I have 3 2Gb SD cards that I use for storing and playing Movies and TV shows. This works fine for me except for the need to change cards a lot. I am thinking of getting an 8GB CF card in order minimize wear and tear on my X51v and the cards themselves.

The question is can I successfully play movies directly from a CF card? I was thinking of a scandisk ultra II. I have found no posts that specifically say you can.

Also, I would be interested in the transfer rate using a card reader.

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Old 11-04-07, 07:16 AM   #2 (permalink)
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in general a card reader is MUCH more efficient moving data to and from vs. using it in the PPC while synced.

Most of the newer (and older) have faster access times than the PPC can utilize, so the PPC is the speed bottleneck, not the card. Your only real concern is battery cost
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Old 11-04-07, 07:18 AM   #3 (permalink)
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On a ppc youll notice very little difference between the two. They cant take advantage of high speed cards like pcs can.

Battey drain is about the same too, for both plain cf and sd. They consume little power. Its microdrives that use a lot of battery.
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Old 11-04-07, 10:41 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I use an 8 GB Transcend 120 x CF card in my hw2415 to view movies and they play just fine.
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Old 11-04-07, 11:05 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Movies do not need high data transfer. VHS quality or something like true VGA quality movie file will have 2Mbit/sec max. Your simplest CF or SD card will have 2.4MB (19.2Mbit/sec) transfer (16x). So you will have no problem watching ripped or downloaded divx movies or your own converted wmv files from CF.
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Old 11-04-07, 12:13 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Thank you all for your replies.

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Old 11-04-07, 06:20 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Julie View Post
I use an 8 GB Transcend 120 x CF card in my hw2415 to view movies and they play just fine.
Have you been satisified with that card?

Reason being is i seen it for $57 on newegg and its getting 5/5 there. I really want to upgrade my 256mb (looks at sig) I need some space, and this looks good. Its not a microdrive, right?
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Old 11-04-07, 08:06 PM   #8 (permalink)
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i have a seagate 4Gig microdrive in my 4700 and on vga had no problem watching brotherbear2 . wasnt even converted to lower res for the PDA !!!
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My 8GB CF card is not a microdrive. I've been very quite pleased with it. I think Transcend makes a couple of different 8 GB CF cards, so here's a link to the one I bought:

http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Ultr...&s=electronics
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i was just trying to say that microdrives are ok to watch movies from...TCPMP of course....
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Originally Posted by Julie View Post
My 8GB CF card is not a microdrive. I've been very quite pleased with it. I think Transcend makes a couple of different 8 GB CF cards, so here's a link to the one I bought:

Amazon.com: Transcend 8GB Ultra-Speed 120x CompactFlash Card - Green (TS8GCF120): Electronics
Im looking at this one, which must be regular speed, which is ok, b/c ill only use it on my axim that cant take advantage of higher speed cards.

Newegg.com - Transcend 8GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model TS8GCF133 - Retail
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I use the 8gb A-Data Turbo Compact Flash 120x, which I got for around $70 last spring (unfortunately cannot recall the web merchant), but it works great, I highly recommend it, holds lots of video and mp3's. I see now where A-Data recently is selling at discount a 16gb CF Card (I believe under $100), but I have no experience with this product.
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