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Originally Posted by Xtremegene
My frustration towards Sony would go up tenfold if that was an intentional action on their part. I wonder if any Memory Stick users are experiencing similar issues.
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I don't think there are any off-brand Memory sticks out there. I know that SanDisk has made them, but they're hardly an off-brand.
It wouldn't bother me at all if Sony intentionally decided that they weren't going to chase their tails trying to support every "SD" card out there that deviated in some small way from the standard.
It would bug me, a lot, to discover that the card I bought believing it was an SD card didn't quite comply with those same standards. If it can't be used in all SD devices then is it really an SD card?
Is it the Reader that isn't complying, or the card? The card would make more sense to me, the Reader isn't the first thing Sony has put an SD slot on, some of their newer laptops have them too. I don't assume that my laptop is at fault when some media or other doesn't want to talk to it, I usually assume (correctly or incorrectly) that it's a problem with the media itself, especially if the hardware is behaving itself otherwise.
I don't know anything about the cards we're discussing, however, so unless somebody else does and would care to comment, then for me this discussion is all hypothetical in the first place.
I suspect the "compatible cards" clause is a CYA move for those cards that don't meet the SD standard.