My take is that CF will dominate in the markets where size isn't as critical, but storage capacity is. Currently that leans most towards DSLR's. Admittedly this is a smaller market. What will probably occur is that lower capacity CF cards will disappear and SD will take over for most other applications.
-- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 5, 2004, 9:01:06 AM, you wrote: SB> An article in Forbes Magazine "As Flash Memory Sales Grow, SB> Some Formats Lose Out" states that the smaller SD format, SB> which fits is smaller devices like cell phones, could SB> ultimately make the compact flash cards appearing in most of SB> our digital cameras obsolete. SB> "in the past year, the SD memory card's monthly market share SB> has surged. By last November, 42% of all aftermarket flash SB> memory cards sold in the United States were in the SD SB> format. CompactFlash, its closest competitor, accounted for SB> less than 26%..." SB> "The SD format, available in both regular and mini sizes, is SB> expected to forge ahead. This year, SanDisk plans to SB> introduce a 1-gigabyte version of the SD memory card, up SB> from 512 megabytes, and plans 2-gigabyte and 3-gigabyte SB> versions for succeeding years . . . By 2006, we will have SD SB> cards with sufficient capacity and transfer speed to record SB> high-definition video..." SB> The entire article can be found here: SB> http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/02/04/0204flashmemorypinnacor_ii.html
