Foreign Perspectives

Sony is one company that continually plows its own furrow in terms of standards and had done so for many years.

All through the era of the VHS-C standard, they kept producing their own Hi-8 camcorders and throughout the price of the corresponding tapes remained higher than the equivalent VHS-C tapes. Now, in those days they could argue that the Hi-8 tapes were better quality but that doesn’t apply in the digital era.

They continue to stick with the memory stick on their cameras when everyone else has mainly gone down the SD route. It’s certainly not the case that the memory stick memory is “better” in some ways than the SD cards yet the price is around three to four times! Yes, for what you’ll pay for a 1GB memory stick you’ll get 4GB worth of SD cards.