http://www.news.com/Coming-soon-Movies-on-flash-memory-cards/2100-11398_3-6232651.html?tag=cd.top
Move over blockbuster, netflix, and any other movie renters. There is a possible new way of renting movies coming to a kiosk near you. Company founder of Portomedia, Chris Armstrong, is planning introduce a new way to buy or rent videos in a faster and more efficient way. Consumers will able to buy or rent a movie by downloading it to a flash drive or memory card. A kiosk will have hard drives that will be able to hold anywhere from 350 to 5,000 movies. A customer will just plug in there flash drive or memory card, enter there pin code, and choose which movie they want to download. Copyright licenses will be no problem since Armstrong has gotten the okay from major studios to build the library for his business.
This seems like a great idea because if you have been to a Hollywood Video or Blockbuster on a Friday or Saturday night, it seems like it takes forever to get in line and pay for your rentals. Downloading the movies to a memory card will take somewhere around 60 seconds, which is significantly less time. This is a great idea and should be coming to the United States soon.
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As long as the movies are in HD quality of video and audio I am all for it! Download them onto an IPOD, other HD, or a current and common media.
I hate when things like this come out and they use some new form of memory that is only available for their device.
One of the downsides to SOME of the flash memory that exists now is that the speed is SLOW.
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