[Damo]

Handheld digital players that can store 3,500 movies or half a million songs – and start up in a second - could be just a few years away, scientists say.

Read the full story here Tinier, faster, tougher and cooler by far - the handheld players that will store 3,500 movies | the Daily Mail

Can't wait, finally no more agonising over what gets left off my mp3 player

[Starcat]

Originally Posted by Damo

Read the full story here Tinier, faster, tougher and cooler by far - the handheld players that will store 3,500 movies | the Daily Mail

Can't wait, finally no more agonising over what gets left off my mp3 player

Thanks for the link to that story, Damo.
If they do eventually use this new type of memory in mp3 players, you would have enough memory to be able to store all your songs in the highest bitrate possible.
You could store everything at 320 kbps or even in WAV format, which can only be a good thing, unless you have a music library the size of solaris`s, then you still might struggle to fit them all on

[scotso]

Originally Posted by Damo

Read the full story here Tinier, faster, tougher and cooler by far - the handheld players that will store 3,500 movies | the Daily Mail

Can't wait, finally no more agonising over what gets left off my mp3 player

you can put me down for one.... WAIT, I should probably get one for Tv shows, and movies better make it 2

[Mellifluous]

I keep meaning to post on this.

I've got an 80GB player that contains all my music and leaves a substantial amount for video. I'm in the middle of putting my favourite TV shows on there, and some movies too. It would be pretty cool to have devices with such huge capacity, we could put our entire movie and TV collections on them. Wish ripping DVDs was quicker though!

[RedSmurf]

Let's hope this works out better than 'MRAM' memory. When I was a student, rumors were that MRAM would overtake the market in 2005 or so. It would be fast, have high capacity and be non-volatile. Today it seems like it has finally reached production beyond simple prototypes, but it's far from the "flash-killer" it was supposed to be...

[squash54]

Originally Posted by RedSmurf

Let's hope this works out better than 'MRAM' memory. When I was a student, rumors were that MRAM would overtake the market in 2005 or so. It would be fast, have high capacity and be non-volatile. Today it seems like it has finally reached production beyond simple prototypes, but it's far from the "flash-killer" it was supposed to be...

When I bought my first PC I had to choose between a 5MB and 10MB (yes MB!) hard drive. The cost of the larger drive was outrageous and the salesman said to me, in an aside, "You would be mad to waste the money on 10MB, you will not even fill a 5MB drive in your lifetime."

[Damo]

Originally Posted by squash54

When I bought my first PC I had to choose between a 5MB and 10MB (yes MB!) hard drive. The cost of the larger drive was outrageous and the salesman said to me, in an aside, "You would be mad to waste the money on 10MB, you will not even fill a 5MB drive in your lifetime."

I remember those days. I also remember how large the old 1.44Mb floppys seemed to be back then.

[solaris]

Originally Posted by squash54

When I bought my first PC I had to choose between a 5MB and 10MB (yes MB!) hard drive. The cost of the larger drive was outrageous and the salesman said to me, in an aside, "You would be mad to waste the money on 10MB, you will not even fill a 5MB drive in your lifetime."

I guess vikulenka was just a baby back then - now she's just a babe

[Damo]

The next best thing to smaller storage is cheaper storage, I just bought a 500GB External HDD to back up my music, only £75.00. that's 15 pence per GB

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by squash54

When I bought my first PC I had to choose between a 5MB and 10MB (yes MB!) hard drive. The cost of the larger drive was outrageous and the salesman said to me, in an aside, "You would be mad to waste the money on 10MB, you will not even fill a 5MB drive in your lifetime."

I've heard this story before! Are you double posting?