Digital Camera Photo Storage

[wendye]

I understand the HD device thing, I'm a bloke and you know what we are with gadgets and that, but I (in my opinion) dont think they are the cheapest way.

Steve

Steve I'm a female gadget fan too and I agree I don't think it's the cheapest way either. Personally I think the cheapest way is to take a card reader and some blank cds as I would have thought most internet cafe machines have cd writers in their machines nowadays.

Another cheaper option is to build yourself an external hard drive and take that instead of the cds (heavier to carry though). I build myself a 120gb hard drive up for £40 earlier in the year - really easy to do.

 

[cazzie]

hi
took a 512 thingy xd card, when i had deleted the rubbish and had about 250 left i took it to walgreens and put it it c.d for the grand total of $2,99 they actually take up to 300 per disc. arrived home a few days ago and played it through the computer without any extra plug ins etc, ran as a slide show - dont think i will bother with prints the outcome was brilliant!

I did the same Susan, every time my cards were full I would just take them to Walgreens and put them onto disc. Apart from once they also gave me a proof sheet of all the photos. Excellent value for money.

 

[Tron[ADS]]

I have a hard time getting along with LCD pictures....I just dont like how they look and behave on larger screens. My current high end CRT set is only about 18 months old, so will do me until HD broadcasts are in full swing, which is some time off. I can already play some xbox games at 720P, which some games and my set supports, so it will do me for now.
If I were to be buying a set tomorrow, it would be this one though.

http://www.panasonic.co.uk/plasma-tv/th50pv500ped/index.htm

The way I see it is that its pointless paying the currently over inflated prices for HD ready sets when theres nothing broadcast at the moment to feed them.
I also wouldnt fancy having my PC sat next to my TV feeding it. I checked out the file sizes of HD captures, which would be what I would need to feed an HDTV set if I were to buy one now.....Last weeks Desperate Housewifes, a 44 minute program, weighed in at 5.5Gb, which is about 7 hours download for me......Im already on Pipex's bad boy list for being a heavy downloader (Im being "traffic managed" because of it).....I cant at this time stretch to anymore downloads to do !