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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
So? Even Blu-ray is compressed. Really, it's just a question of the degree of compression and efficiency of the codec used. How many non-video professionals or hobbyists actually watch uncompressed video? You'd need a multi-SSD/HDD RAID set-up to get enough disk throughput for HD video.
Another thing, 128GB is certainly enough for a week's worth. Surely you won't just be watching videos on your tablet for the entire duration of your vacation?
We've cancelled cable TV at home and just use streaming sources to supplement free OTA. Our bandwidth usage is around 250GB per month (I reckon 80% of that is either Netflix or Hulu). Usage is around 5~10 episodes of Family Guy or Futurama or Simpsons and 2~3 full-length movies per day.
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A standard DVD is about 4-6 GB. You can obviously forget HD. Sure you can compress, but that takes a long time. (we are talking about ADDITIONAL compression BY A USER here after buying the file or disk, not compression at the studios, lol). Anyway, this is just ONE example. An expansion slot is always a good thing. And we shouldn't accept that companies are charging more for giving us less. If companies realize that users want expansion slots they will bring them back. So users here are right to make a big stink about it. The only way to change things.
There is always enough space to include a micro SD slot on any tablet, and nobody can seriously tell me that the very same tablet with exactly the same dimensions would not be better with such a slot? You personally may not care (just like someone living in Hawaii may not care if a car has no heater) but it would improve the functionality of the device, period. They leave it out to save money, make extra money on selling you additional cables or adapters, and to lock you into their clouds. Not for our benefit.
They are also shortchanging us in other ways -- by now the top-of-the-line models should be on 128GB memory for virtually the same price as the old 64 GBs. The manufacturers just want to keep us from storing a lot of our own data on the devices. Which is why they are not aggressively upgrading those specs as they have in the past.