Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

MultiMediaCard to MemoryStick Adapter?

Posted by Cliff on from the translating-the-hardware-signals dept.

Philipp Markus Alexander Schmid asks: "Does anyone know if there exists a MMC to MemoryStick adapter? There is this wonderful SonyEricsson P800 which comes with a memorystick duo slot. I'm currently building a MemoryStick standard to MemoryStick duo adapter for the phone (because of the non-existing availability of the duo). The next step would be an MMC to memorystick duo adapter, but is there a device or chip that can convert on the fly between MMC and MemorysStick?"

2 of 12 comments (clear)

  1. If you want to be proprietary by shepd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And build something using Sony technology, you'd better talk with them and pay out the arse like anyone else who deals with those idiots.

    My bets are yes, they have something, and yes, they'd love to sell you the specs for the low, low price of $100,000. And if you don't buy them, you'll need to move to Sealand if you think you're gonna build it by reverse engineering.

    Sorry to be blunt, but anything made by, created by, or invented by Sony is proprietary over-priced crap. Even when it's good it's crap because it still says Sony on it.

    The only thing that ever "revolutionized" anyone's life that ever came from Sony was the walkman, and even that was a big cheat (Andreas Pavel came up with the idea and patented it years before Sony)!

    I suppose one will bring up Beta, which rightly died because Sony made it proprietary and abused their monopoly of the format to stop people using their format for anything "distasteful" (not for long, but who wants to deal with a company that emits even a hint of regulating speech?)

    The only thing from Sony I own is a PS2, and that's only because it was the easiest of the three consoles to mod at the time.

    --
    If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
  2. It involves by jsse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    reverse-engineering of the operation of a Memory Stick, because Sony only discloses its specifications to their partners, with huge loyality fee. Frankly I'm not sure how big the loyality is, but you don't see much non-Sony Memory Stick compliant stuff around do you?

    However, at the risk of being accused of spreading FUD, I believe one might violate DMCA by reverse-engineering it. Ask your lawyer.