What is Memory Stick?

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WHAT IS MEMORY STICK?

An Integrated Circuit (chip) designed to record various digital content.

Memory Stick was developed to realize the convenience of recording different types of digital content and sharing and exchanging them among the widest possible variety of products. It is compact, light, reliable and easy to handle. A wide variety of digital content, from photos and computer data to music and moving images, can all be stored on a single stick.

Memory Stick also offers a reliable copyright protection environment so that users can securely record copyrighted content and at the same time, the rights of copyright holders can be protected.

Versatile, compatible and user-friendly -- Memory Stick is the portable memory of choice for anyone for enjoying digital content anywhere, any time.

High ideals of Memory Stick are supported by a great number of manufacturers and vendors. As of fall 2003, Memory Stick compatible products have reached 50 million worldwide. The number is increasing at an accelerated pace and is expected to reach 200 million in 2005. With the flexibility to readily allow data sharing and exchange among an extensive range of hardware, Memory Stick networks are expanding throughout the world.

Rapid advancement towards the broadband era and fast-evolving hardware/software will soon bring about a rich diversity of advanced applications such as real-time recording of high-resolution moving images on memory cards.

Memory Stick will provide an ideal platform for enjoying such advanced applications in the coming broadband era, without the need to worry about the type of network service.

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