Dinko Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 According to this DJ Newswire, Sony and Samsung could not quite agree on flash memory prices, and Sony will use mini-hard drives for its upcoming portable media player.http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060215/15/3ypiy.htmlSamsung has been in talks with Japan's Sony to supply NAND flash memory chips for Sony's upcoming new portable media player but because Sony has been asking for lower prices on NAND flash chips, the company will likely opt to use cheaper hard disk drives in its devices, the source, who declined to be named, said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Bit o.t of me here, but if sony put mpeg4 as the only playable codec on their new pmp then i will have a big rant about it. I wonder how batt life would be affected by using hdd instead of flash>? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minger Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Battery life would probably go down, along with the life of the product, as hard drives break down eventually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinko Posted July 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Sony to use 8-10GB flash in new PMP, due by end of year:http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/17/dram_nan...e_says_isuppli/DRAM, NAND prices to stabilize thanks to Core 2, Sony PSP2 :iSuppliScott M. Fulton, IIIJuly 17, 2006 16:49Meanwhile, as Apple is expected to use higher-capacity NAND flash memory in its upgraded iPod nano line due this fall, iSuppli now has reason to believe that Sony will begin producing PlayStation Portable 2 units, along with a new personal media player in the second half of this year. Both Sony units, Kim told TG Daily this afternoon, should utilize between 8 and 10 GB of on-board, high-density NAND flash, while Apple's new nano is expected to include 8 GB.But timing - if you happened to think it suddenly became less than everything one day when you weren't looking - remains everything. If Apple maintains its presumed schedule of a fall release for the new nano - which some analysts believe it will not do - and if Sony manages to sneak its PSP2 and PMP units out the factory door in time for Christmas, the two companies combined should manage to constitute 41% of global NAND memory supply in Q4 2006. What's particularly interesting about Kim's forecast is that it treats the PSP2 and "PMP" as separate devices, not the same device as most others have speculated. A separate "PMP" would be a more direct competitor to the iPod nano, while an all-in-one PSP2 would have the virtue of being an extensive gaming unit, with a Web browser to boot. If the PSP2 were perceived sometime in 2007 as the #2 portable media player, supporters could use its gaming library as a fallback position. But Sony has typically assigned a different division to address the MP3 market, Kim pointed out to us, so it probably will not produce a merged device whose leadership is split between divisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Bit o.t of me here, but if sony put mpeg4 as the only playable codec on their new pmp then i will have a big rant about it.Why not? MPEG4 is a standard, and can achieve very good picture quality at small bitrate compared to other codecs. All Sony need to do is eliminate the stupid restrictions they put on the codec support in PSP, and they'll have an excellent device. I'd rather have MPEG4 then propietary WMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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