Sony Adds Its Fastest Memory Stick Card—Pro-HG Duo HX
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Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo HX cards with adapter
Park Ridge, NJ—Sony Electronics is enhancing its lineup of Memory Stick media with Pro-HG Duo HX memory cards that offer increased transfer speeds. The new Memory Stick cards have a 30-megabytes-per-second transfer rate, making them Sony’s fastest memory cards.
Pro-HG Duo HX products, Sony’s highest performance memory cards, are designed to support and enhance the features of the company’s hardware devices. “Consumers quickly will see the benefit of the high-speed HX series when using features like burst shooting for DSLR or shooting HD video,” said Shane Higby, director, Consumer Media, Sony Electronics. “It is the recommended media format for both professionals and enthusiasts, delivering high performance and a range of unique benefits.”
For example, using a 32-gigabyte HX-series Memory Stick, an Alpha digital SLR user can take approximately 260 images in one minute (JPEG mode/large [14MB]), which is approximately 160 percent more images than Pro Duo Memory Stick, added Higby. And, a Handycam camcorder user can transfer approximately 175 minutes of HD video or a 30GB file (1,920x1,080 on the HDR-CX110) in 17 minutes, via the compatible high-speed adapter, which is one-quarter of the time it takes to download from a 32GB Pro Duo Memory Stick.
Sold in capacities ranging from 8GB to 32GB, the HX series starts at $59.99. All Memory Stick models include x-Pict Story software for online photo sharing and data recovery software to enable file rescue. sony.com