
As luck would have it, an e-mailĪrrived from a publicist for Micron Technology’s Lexar Media unit, headlined “Working on a flash memory story?” The thought that you could add programming to a television, cellphone or computer, just sticking a tiny card in a slot seems attractive. This got me wondering if this was indeed true. Any data burned onto a disk is just as easily written to and stored

memory sticks or the sort of SD memory cards that go in digital cameras.įlash drives are a very convenient and no-moving-parts alternative that is likely to make CDs/DVDs obsolete once price and capacity come down. In stores, but they may come loaded on U.S.B. And others have suggested that the price of memory chips is falling so fast that we might still buy movies Some argue we don’t need discs at all because we’ll all be able to download movies. Over the last few months, we’ve had quite a debate in the comments here about the relative merits of Blu-ray, HD DVD and standardĭVD discs.
