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 Originally Posted by GMoney749
Why do you want an SD card and video out?...
Well, I don’t agree about your comments about price, you can get any number of no-name SD cards for peanuts. Even brand name Sandisk cards have 8GB cards for $20 at Newegg. In any case, SD cards aren’t new. I have stacks of them.
But more to the point, at my job every once in a while (roughly once every two or three months) I have to travel out of town for a night or two. Usually, although not always, to the same place (where we have a factory.) It is a ****hole of a ***-forsaken little stain on the map with nothing to do in the town after the hourly union workers scamper off the assembly line promptly at 3:30 in the afternoon other than to go back to the hotel and watch the Union Pacific race by outside the window every couple hours.
It is quite common that I don’t have much notice before a trip. Usually just the day before, leaving me the evening to pack and be ready to go early the next morning.
Now that you know the background…
Usually the day I have decided I will travel to the factory, that night I take 5 or 6 of the most recent TV shows that the computer has DVRed and select to have them transcoded down to a size that best fits the small screen of my Netbook. The PC is setup to transcode them (overnight while it is idle and not doing other media tasks) then dump them to the SD card that is already in the reader. The next morning, before I leave, I pull out the SD card and plug it into the netbook.
No, I’m not about to turn on the PC, then sit and wait for 7 to 10 gig of transcoded shows to transfer over a wireless connection, or even over a USB connection. I get up early and get out the door as quickly as possible.
As for HDMI, the hotel I stay at (only hotel in the miserable town really) has some junky spark-o-matic flatscreens in their rooms, which fortuitously enough, have both VGA and HDMI inputs on the back. Currently I plug the netbook in via VGA, don’t really care if the connection is VGA or HDMI but I doubt any tablet will ever sport a VGA connection, so I would like to see one with HDMI. Sometimes I just watch the shows directly on the netbook, but sometimes it is nice to lay on the bed and watch the TV.
Anyway, that is my reasoning. Likely none of the above is even closely relevant to the way you would like to use a tablet, but then, I was only voicing comments about getting one for myself. Not proclaiming “market-wide fail” because it does or does not have this feature or that.
-Suntan
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