Looking for a 1 GB Memory Stick for my PSP

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Atari2600

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I keep hearing how you can get them for around $150 if you know where to look, but I guess I don't know where to look. I've found it for that price at two places, but it was out of stock at both. Ebay's got nothing even close to a reasonable price, and I've found nothing at newegg, circuitcity.com, BestBuy.com, Outpost.com, TigerDirect.com, and probably a couple of other places I am forgetting.

Is there anyone that knows where I can get one? Anybody got a hookup?

I had a 512, but I was ripping movies and music, and it's just not enough, so I took it back.

Thanks for any help you can offer.
 
Atari2600 said:
I keep hearing how you can get them for around $150 if you know where to look, but I guess I don't know where to look. I've found it for that price at two places, but it was out of stock at both. Ebay's got nothing even close to a reasonable price, and I've found nothing at newegg, circuitcity.com, BestBuy.com, Outpost.com, TigerDirect.com, and probably a couple of other places I am forgetting.

Is there anyone that knows where I can get one? Anybody got a hookup?

I had a 512, but I was ripping movies and music, and it's just not enough, so I took it back.

Thanks for any help you can offer.
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They have it listed as 124.95 here with an ETA of 1/17/05. Might be good to put your order in to get on line if you're willing to invest.

Or you can order one from here for 152.87, with an estimated time of arrival of 1/30/05.

I purchased mine for 154 dollars at another place, but they're out of stock now.

For future reference, you can find great deals via Froogle.
 
I just cancelled my 1GB order.

I just realized the only time I will ever ever watch a movie on this thing (i have an ipod for music) is on the plane trip to/from E3. By then I can probably snag a 2GB stick for $120. :)
 
Thanks for that link Mrbob.

I'm not going to watch tons of movies, but I figure I'll keep an episode or two of Seinfeld on there and some MP3's. I've got an iPod and a laptop that I travel with, but having music and video in something so small is nice.

I was at Hooters last night, and while we were waiting for the game to start, I played some PSP. The waitress was lovin' it. I was showing her pictures of where I took my girlfriend for our two year anniversary, and she was quite jealous. It's fun to be able to share pics with people anytime you want.
 
I was watching fansubbed DVD rips of Samurai 7 on the bus to and from work today. With headphones on, I felt like I was in another world, away from the mundane shuffle of the daily commute. At one point, I also felt like I was going to get mugged for my PSP.
 
How big is a compressed 2-hour movie for the PSP with good quality settings?

With WMV9 and my PocketPC I can get a movie into about 240mb or so, which lets me shoehorn two onto my 512mb CF card.
 
Atari2600 said:
Thanks guys. Anyone used these Sparco peeps before?
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I bought my 512 Pro stick from Sparco two years ago or so. Best price at the time, and no problems ordering from them.
 
Sony should have gone with anything but memory sticks. They cost more than double of most cards.
 
Well at least they're using their memory stick cards instead of another proprietary card (remember the PS1 and PS2 never took advantage of a 'normal' memory card). Prices will come down. Sony wants us to buy their cards and make use of them with the PSP.
 
Sho Nuff said:
How big is a compressed 2-hour movie for the PSP with good quality settings?

With WMV9 and my PocketPC I can get a movie into about 240mb or so, which lets me shoehorn two onto my 512mb CF card.
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Usually around 400-500 megs. Should be able to fit two full length movies plus games saves on a 1gig card.
 
kpop100 said:
Isn't the transfer rate of MS Pro Duo much faster than either SD or CF. Also physical size is smaller.
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Never heard about that. Of course there are variations for nearly any purpose).

Well at least they're using their memory stick cards instead of another proprietary card (remember the PS1 and PS2 never took advantage of a 'normal' memory card). Prices will come down. Sony wants us to buy their cards and make use of them with the PSP.
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I prefer something like this too. The other media will also get cheaper however. Memory stick isnt really used that greatly in any devices. Practically only Sony products use them. Their market share took a tumble actually. Plus they finished their pda's.
 
You should be glad they are as cheap as they are.
They were A LOT more before, but now sandisk and others are making them which drove down prices. Thanks to the PSP prices should drop a little bit more from more competition and production.


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And while it is a Sony format, to their defense its one of the best formats out there, its just a shame its used on sony products.
 
Deg said:
Sony should have gone with anything but memory sticks. They cost more than double of most cards.
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That's the reason they went with memory sticks. What do you think accounts for the price differential?
 
Deg said:
The other media will also get cheaper however.
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If MS media continues to decrease as well, so what? It'll get to a point where you'll be measuring the difference in dollars, not tens of dollars.

Memory stick isnt really used that greatly in any devices. Practically only Sony products use them. Their market share took a tumble actually. Plus they finished their pda's.
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You mean besides all the PCs, printers and such that have multi-format flash readers in them, as well as all the external/USB flash readers that you can buy cheaply that basically turn any flash media format into readily available storage for just about any computing device? There are also CompactFlash adapters for Duo-size MS that allow MS Duo to be used in most devices that accept CompactFlash memory.

While there may be marketshare leaders in the flash memory space, there is no *standard*. The volatility of flash media has forced a resourceful tech industry to formulate a different kind of glue to bind everything together. It's at a point now where it doesn't really matter what kind of flash media a particular device you have uses, because there are plenty of ways that flash media and its contents can be used elsewhere.
 
chespace said:
I was watching fansubbed DVD rips of Samurai 7 on the bus to and from work today. With headphones on, I felt like I was in another world, away from the mundane shuffle of the daily commute. At one point, I also felt like I was going to get mugged for my PSP.
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POSTERS!!! We need more POSTERS in EGM!!! :lol I would feel like i had to hide my PSP if i were to play in public...almost like i was doing something illegal.

DCX
 
sho nuff,

You can do all sorts to get movies to fit. You can use 15fps if you like (thats what it used to default to on my PDA to get the sizes you are talking about). Then you'd have similar sizes - maybe 300MB for a 2 hour movie.


I've got a 512, but tempted to get a 1GB, just so I can leave some stuff on there for different situations. And I still need to work out a good workflow for getting stuff from my Tivo-PSP.
 
Mrbob said:
They aren't.
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They are relatively expensive compared to some other portable memory (a 1GB SD card at the same site is $73).

Good price on that 1GB stick though!
 
Suikoguy said:
You should be glad they are as cheap as they are.
They were A LOT more before, but now sandisk and others are making them which drove down prices. Thanks to the PSP prices should drop a little bit more from more competition and production.


EDIT:

And while it is a Sony format, to their defense its one of the best formats out there, its just a shame its used on sony products.
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wow, you make it sound like a gift from the heavens instead of an obvious price difference between the formats
 
will that work with my new SONY Digi Cam ? I think my MC is bigger than that, and I'm planning on upgrading it ..

can you guys help me plz ?
 
Deg said:
Sony should have gone with anything but memory sticks. They cost more than double of most cards.
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Well, considering Sony owns the format and uses it in pretty much all of their products that need , i'd say it's a no brainer. Prices will come down as more devices use the format and more manufacturers jump on board to produce it.

$118 for a 1GB MS Duo is a decent price. If it were there faster Pro variation of MS, i'd jump on this myself. But the standard sticks should be fast enough for anything you'd have on PSP.

almokla said:
will that work with my new SONY Digi Cam ? I think my MC is bigger than that, and I'm planning on upgrading it ..

can you guys help me plz ?
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It should. All Duo cards come with an adapter to fit in a standardly-sized slot. You might need to check the customer support page for your camera just to make sure. But honestly, you might wanna hold off unless you have a PSP or other Duo-compatible device now. Duo prices will likely drop a bit more when the PSP launches in the US (definitely by time it launches in the UK).
 
aoi tsuki said:
Well, considering Sony owns the format and uses it in pretty much all of their products that need , i'd say it's a no brainer.
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Like ATRAC3 i see.
Prices will come down as more devices use the format and more manufacturers jump on board to produce it.
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Its not like the other formats will just stay at the same price especially when they are more popular.

$118 for a 1GB MS Duo is a decent price. If it were there faster Pro variation of MS, i'd jump on this myself. But the standard sticks should be fast enough for anything you'd have on PSP.
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Thats not bad but in the UK we dont get these kind of prices. Memory sticks are far too expensive and not used much at all.


It should. All Duo cards come with an adapter to fit in a standardly-sized slot. You might need to check the customer support page for your camera just to make sure. But honestly, you might wanna hold off unless you have a PSP or other Duo-compatible device now. Duo prices will likely drop a bit more when the PSP launches in the US (definitely by time it launches in the UK).
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Why would you buy an adaptor for even more expensive memory? As i said Memory sticks are not that popular. People using adaptors must be in pretty small numbers.

In the interests of customers it would have been better 'any' other way.
 
Your comments about 'not that popular' clearly depend on your situation. If you have a Sony digital camera, then they are popular, because you need one.

Current market share puts Sony up there with the market leaders, SD. Its a fairly fragmented market, but they have a high-teens market share, which is pretty good. Its certainly no flop (hello, xd?)

Still, you buy the card you need for your device. You have no reason to bitch unless you have lots of devices using different cards - then you bitch at everyone, not just Sony.
 
Atari2600 said:
Aoi, it IS the pro duo that they are selling.
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Wow, you're right! Sandisk's Pros are blue while Sony's standard Duos are blue. i've been up a while and basically skimmed right over the text. :)

deg said:
Why would you buy an adaptor for even more expensive memory? As i said Memory sticks are not that popular. People using adaptors must be in pretty small numbers.
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Duos come with an adaptor. Ironically, i'll probably be one of those people who use adapters, seeing as how i have a Sony PDA.

koam said:
PSP uses DUO sticks? or something else?
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Yes, they use Duo. For more info on MS variants, visit http://www.memorystick.com/en/ms/variety.html.
 
Deg said:
Thats not bad but in the UK we dont get these kind of prices. Memory sticks are far too expensive and not used much at all.
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Which goes away with the arrival of PSP, of course.

Not that there's anything stopping you importing from the US or Canada - postage on a memory stick can't cost that much, after all. If you insist on sourcing it in the UK, you can get half a gig for £47 or so.
 
mrklaw said:
Current market share puts Sony up there with the market leaders, SD. Its a fairly fragmented market, but they have a high-teens market share, which is pretty good. Its certainly no flop (hello, xd?)

Still, you buy the card you need for your device. You have no reason to bitch unless you have lots of devices using different cards - then you bitch at everyone, not just Sony.
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Its certainly not as popular as SD. In the US SD has more than double marketshare last time i looked. Which partially explains the prices.

Lots of cards is an annnoyance(damn you MMC too). I have everything including custom types :p But Memory stick is the most expensive. Probbaly explains why so many people like USB pens without any adaptor etc.

iapetus said:
Which goes away with the arrival of PSP, of course.
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No it wont since most usage is in Mobile phones and cameras. PSP will more than compensate for Clie's IMO but not bigger sizes at all. Most people will just buy the small ones.

Not that there's anything stopping you importing from the US or Canada - postage on a memory stick can't cost that much, after all. If you insist on sourcing it in the UK, you can get half a gig for £47 or so.
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Still risky and how many will import outside of us?
 
Lots of cards is an annnoyance(damn you MMC too). I have everything including custom types :p But Memory stick is the most expensive. Probbaly explains why so many people like USB pens without any adaptor etc.
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USB Pens are just another nonstandard form of flash memory to juggle. But the situation doesn't have to be as annoying as you suggest with a few smart purchases to keep everything as intercompatible as possible.
 
kaching said:
USB Pens are just another nonstandard form of flash memory to juggle. But the situation doesn't have to be as annoying as you suggest with a few smart purchases to keep everything as intercompatible as possible.
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Its not that bad. I manage easily. I only use the newer devices and my mobile phone is the used the most (MMC right now). What is annoying is how they bring new standards out constantly. Memory sticks are a varied bunch as are MMC now. Sd's have a fairly clean rep so far.

I just want HD stuff to arrive soon :p Better for everyone. More bang for your buck.
 
If we're talking easily removable, hot-swappable HDs, then yeah, that'd be great. Without that though, there'll still be a significant role for storage formats like flash media to fill.
 
To those of you still whining about the price, do you know that the 1 gig pro duo just dropped 30 bucks in price over the last couple days....Used to be 150 now it is down to 120. If the PSP does explode sales wise you need a pro duo to save games. Suffice to say prices will come down even more.

And it is nice that 1 GIG SD cards are only 75 bucks. For those of you with SD enabled equipment. The PSP uses a PRO DUO memory stick so the price of a SD card is really irrelevant since it is a non factor. If the PSP starts accepting SD cards let me know. :D
 
The thing is, Mem Stick Pro Duo has great performance -- performance that would be appreciated in the Digital SLR market. It's faster than anything out there.

Unfortunately, none of the professional digital cameras have Memory Stick support. (No, the Sony 828 is not considered a professional digital camera. Go buy some Canon L-glass and then we'll talk.)

So your problem is that Sony is making products that are too high spec for their users :) There is no need for that kind of write speed when you are just taking pictures through Sony's mid-grade consumer lenses.
 
Gantz said:
No one gig sticks should be 20 bucks. Sony once again raping their customers on accessories.
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It'd be nice if they were 20 bucks, but no there's no way they should be 20 bucks atm. That wouldn't even make sense. The hilarious thing is that you're trying to pin this pricing on Sony, as if most flash-based storage devices aren't expensive. 1Gig SD cards cost 50+, and they're no where near as good as Memory Stick Pro Duos.
 
Sho Nuff said:
So your problem is that Sony is making products that are too high spec for their users :) There is no need for that kind of write speed when you are just taking pictures through Sony's mid-grade consumer lenses.
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Er...how is that a problem?

Anyhow, Pro Duo does have a very specific key use right now: digital video recording. Standard duo doesn't seem to have the spec necessary to handle a constant 640x480 30fps video stream, at least based on the DSC-T1 reviews I've seen.

MS Pro Duo High Speed, on the other hand, is a spec I still can't find a product for yet.
 
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