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Disney to Cram Movies onto SD Cards, Does Anyone Care?

Posted 07/24/09 at 11:35:45 AM  by Paul Lilly

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We've seen some third-party USB makers toy with adding movies to USB sticks -- PNY being the first by adding Ghostbusters to a 2GB USB thumb drive -- and now Disney is looking to do the same thing, only with microSD cards.

According to news site TGDaily, Panasonic and Disney have inked a deal to distribute Disney movies on microSD cards, the first of which will be the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy this November. Looking longer term, Disney plans to release future titles on DVD and microSD at the same time.

Buyers will be able to view the movies on car navigation systems, mobile phones, and other portable media players with a microSD card slot, as well as some existing Panasonic TV sets that come with card readers already built in.

There are a couple of caveats, however. First, the card/movie bundles will only be available in Japan, at least initially. And secondly, the $53 price tag and included copy protection may scare off some potential customers.

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TAGS: storage, movies, Peripherals, hardware, Disney, panasonic, SD
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avatarPutting movies on an sd

Submitted by kyri on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 2:30pm

Putting movies on an sd multimedia card is actually a pretty good idea. The price tag however, seems extremely excessive. The copy protection is just ridiculous. It won't be long until someone figures out how to remove it and releases and open source program to do it. So who do they think they're protecting the content from?

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avatarNice. I dont see any kids

Submitted by DJFresh on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 11:10am

Nice. I dont see any kids choking on those in the near future. Looks delicious.

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avatarDuring the evening or with

Submitted by TechJunkie on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 12:36pm

During the evening or with friends, they can watch movies. During the day, I want them out playing and being active. If on a road trip, they can watch a DVD on thier portable DVD player. BUT they are NOT, going to watch movies on my cell phone!! I draw the line there. They are 10 and 11 and my 600$ phone is worth a crap load more than 100$ player. Plus, those screens are too small for effective screen watching. Iphoney, Zune, Ipod, they are the same...headache makers.

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avatarWhat is this 1999?  I

Submitted by alloyking on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 12:29pm

What is this 1999? 

I remeber cramming a full length movie on a 128mb card 9 years ago so I could watch video during a flight.   Doesn't seem all that cool these days.

Why doesn't Disney just stream this to your iphone?

For the price,  Just buy the DVD's you want (Cough) download them.  Then place the data on your own SD Card. 

 

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avatarwow cost way way way to

Submitted by comptech08 on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 11:33am

wow cost way way way to much.  Only way for this work is its cheap, the quality is good, and once i buy it, its mine and they cant tell me what to play it on, how many times i can copy it and what else i want to do with it.

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