PSP 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo’s hit Europe
Sony Europe have announced that the new 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo’s are gopinf to be available in the UK from Summer 2006 (nothing like precise release date…) for around £170. While this is quite alot of money, historically the price of lower capacity Memory Stick Pro Duo’s fall when a new high capacity one is released.
The increased storage capacity of the 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo media enables the users to hold large amounts of multimedia data including digital photos, music files, videos and games as well as increasingly popular podcasts and video blogs. Users will be able to store up to 1000 MP3 songs, 3000 digital photos in 5 megapixel resolution or more than 9 hours of MPEG-4 video* on a 4GB Memory Stick, making it ideal for mobile entertainment – especially given the increasing number of available data hungry applications.
Hopefully the release of the 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo will drive down the price of the 1GB and 2GB cards even further, which will give the consumer a number of options when it comes to storage capacity.
I’m thinking that maybe a couple of 2GB cards would be the ideal solution to my current storage problems – one for homebrew and applications, the other for movies and music. This solution means that I could keep the content separate. The downside of course is its double the number of Memory Stick Pro Duo’s to carry around.
i heard that there is a program you can download on a memory stick that hacks it components and causes it to double it’s capacity.please tell me this would be possible!
Jonny, sounds intriguing but most likely a hoax. The only way to double the capacity of an existing memoery card would be to compress the contents down, which would require a third party compression agent.
The only reason a manufacturer would produce memory cards with capacity locked out would be down to economies of scale, but I still can’t see it being done.