usb flash memory

[sparksy]

ok im stumped on this one here.

bought a tevion ( aldi ) potable dvd player with sd card reader and usb port in it...............

i tried my old memorex flash stick.. 1gb and it played all the pics and avi files fine...

so off i trotted to pc world (pff shit hole) asked the bloke if the 16gb emtec stick was ok for ok to lash avi onto..yeah np he said...

so i downloaded about 10 films for the kids onto it...works fine in the pc.. ( even in the slower usb on the keyboard...

but will it fuck work on the dvd player... rang them up and some bloke says not all usb sticks are for dvd players.. just pc...

sp which one do i go for then ?? stumped on this one,, i thought they would all be the same tbh....

[skeletor]

All USB will work across all the different players, but some players may have a limit on how much they can read.

My phone for example can take microSD card, but it can only handle up to 512MB, anything over that and it doesn't recognise it.

Read through DVD player stuff and see if there is a limit to the size of the USB stick.

[BlacKBlazE]

My phone for example can take microSD card, but it can only handle up to 512MB, anything over that and it doesn't recognise it.

That is brutal, got a 1 gig memory card in my phone but i don't know the limit for it,
To sparks i thought the same but then again i've never had a memory card that big for anything

[sparksy]

so it wont be the the fact that the old one is FAT and the new one is FAT 32 ? probably the size.... i could have bought 3x 4gb ones as well cheaper..pff

[skeletor]

Could well be because it is FAT not FAT32, but all my USB sticks are FAT32 (512MB, 1GB + 2GB).

[sparksy]

spoke to them at customer after care today... they are checking with tevion ( german i think) others have called with problems with 16gb sticks... they are asking em what is the limit and are going to email me...... bonerbrad is bringing a 4gb one in tommoz.. if that works ill get a load of them...
she said the FAT thing wont be the problem ... sounds like its the gb size ...as you predicted skell.. you clickety click master you.....

[skeletor]

spoke to them at customer after care today... they are checking with tevion ( german i think) others have called with problems with 16gb sticks... they are asking em what is the limit and are going to email me...... bonerbrad is bringing a 4gb one in tommoz.. if that works ill get a load of them...
she said the FAT thing wont be the problem ... sounds like its the gb size ...as you predicted skell.. you clickety click master you.....

Nice of them to tell you your weight isn't a problem

Good to know they have people that know what FAT is though, got to give them credit. Was it the DVD player company you spoke to?

[sparksy]

yeah thier webside is the tevion importers one...

the saga continues............. pluged boners 4gb usb flash stick in today... it worked.... email says 4gb sd cards and 8gb flash sticks....

so off i went to pissy world on the way home and bought a pack of 3x4gb usb flash sticks......

cunts dont work ive now spent more wedge on flash sticks than the fucking dvd player

so i got technical...rang brad.... the one that worked of his is FAT 32.... same as the new ones i bought.. so i re-formatted it anyway to FAT.... still didnt work

im lost on this one now....

cheap ALDI SHIT

[skeletor]

It's possible different brands will work, although they should really all work.

[spam_dagger]

It would certainly be appropriate to say, that when purchasing flash memory, generally above 4-8GB you would defnately be wanting to buy something of a high quality/brand, because i would image buying in those types of sizes
would mean you are backing up, or storing data which is large and readily accessed. Usually it's better to have a main source, and sync with that regularly from smaller pen drives.. They are SHIT for backing up anything, trust them only for temporary periods, i experienced difficulties on windows platforms with drives over 16 GB not remaining reliable. Flash memory getting into those sizes under performs, plus handling data into the size on the fly isnt so efficient with the 2.0 bus. bring on 3.0, apparently the standard is confirmed, well see eh?