rec.arts.movies.production.sound

"Audio1979" wrote in message
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> On Feb 29, 10:49 pm, Scott wrote:
>> On Feb 29, 7:30 pm, mixer76er wrote:
>>
>> > I've been looking around and many of the solid state recording devices
>> > and it seems the cheaper they are the more they tend to employ the SD
>> > or SDHC cards as their media format as opposed to the Compact Flash
>> > media cards. Is there any real advantage to one over another? Thanks
>> > for any input.
>>
>> SD/SDHC will replace CF in less than 2 years. It is more stable, more
>> reliable and more user friendly.
>
> I've put a few compact Flash cards through the wash by mistake (long
> story). All survived. Never tried washing a SD card before.
>
> Glen


I think another big plus for SD are the smaller dimensions. My Dell laptop
takes them directly as do many other laptops. Haven't seen too many laptops
recently that had CF slots in them. CF appears to be going the way of SCSI
and soon Firewire for all but professional equipment interface. I would
prefer my next professional recorder have a USB connection and SDHC instead
of Firewire and CF. Wouldn't it be great if we could dump files to a thumb
drive!