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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?"

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  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.

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    1. Re:If you want to be proprietary by Peapod · · Score: 2, Informative

      Minor issue, and probably slightly off-topic, however Betas did not die. If you go into most television stations, especially the slightly smaller markets than the New Yorks or the D/FW areas, you will find a Betamax VTR. Actually, you will probably find several. Also, if you look at the older line of cameras (older by about one to two years that is) they are Betas. They are slightly different than the originals however. Their tapes move at 3 times the speed than others. But still, the Sony brand is not just a consumer brand mostly because the quality really cannot be matched for the most part. DV (not mini) and Beta cams will mostly use the Sony tapes.

      Call Sony whatever you want. Restrictive of free speach etc. It doesn't change the fact that they make great products. I have a Sun Microsystems pure flat monitor sitting on my desktop. What kind of CRT does it have in it? Why, a Sony trinitron CRT. Good products slightly overpriced will insure that they stay in business for a little while longer.

      -Peapod

  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.

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by jsse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?)

    Funny when you brought this up. Beta was really widely accepted in a place where Government loved to regulate speech - Soviet Russia. I remembered we were shipping a lot of Beta function TVs and video-recorders to Soviet Russia. Sony and few manufacturers made unifunction TV/recorders(Beta) because multifuction, which were already popular at time, were NOT welcomed by Russian Government. Somehow I found they've striking similarity in their believes, heh. :)

    I'm not sure whether Russians are still using Beta TV now. Anyone would update me? (begins with IN SOVIET RUSSIA :)

  4. Duo Availability by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Notably, you can buy a MagicGate 64 MB Duo Stick at Sony's website - $70 for 64 MB is a little much, but it adds the Duo-to-Memory Stick adapter.

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