A new media format for albums is about to be released. Robbie Williams Greatest Hits will be available on a memory card (Multi Media Card) format. It will cost an eye watering £29.99. It will be sold from Carphone Warehouse and is aimed at PDA and smartphone users.

No doubt this will become a collectors item. The price will put most people off as the CD will only cost £10. Is this the future media form albums? In a similar vein Bill Wyman released an album using memory cards in 1999, which were inserted inside their own MP3 player.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ic/3754094.stm

Not unless they can do them alot cheaper than that . Certainly a desirable form factor though. I'd wondered if someone might try it, didn't know about the Bill Wyman thing.

It'd be interesting to know if they could do really cheap memory cards using roms. But as Nintendo dumped rom cards for CDs for it's games, I doubt they could approach the price of CDs.
I doubt it would work anyway, because of the profusion of memory card standards (thankyou Sony, etc. *sigh*).

Another cheaper option would be MP3/WMA based mini CDs, which they might try, now that MP3 playing CD players are becoming the norm. They'd be more portable and even cheaper to make than standard CDs. It'd be a shame about the drop in sound quality, but the kids don't care much about that.

£30 for that? You could probably an MMC card and a copy of the album for less than that!

i don't think memory cards will be the future.. i think in 10 years all music will just be downloaded to your tv/hi-fi/pc hybrid thingy . i suppose they could be part of the future as in you buy blanks and use them to transport your media to mp3 players/friends house etc.