Although in the grand scheme of things, Sony’s Memory Stick day are numbered as the company has begun to deploy a hybrid of Memory Stick and SD card input system in their Handycam, Alpha, and NGP lineup, that doesn’t mean that there are not millions of products out in the market who currently use Memory Stick. For those consumers, Sony is releasing the Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX, which offers an impressive 50MB per second transfer rate. The new high speed Memory Stick come in:

• 32GB (¥17,000 about $200)
• 16GB (¥9,000 or $106)
• 8GB (¥5,000 / $59)

I have to say that I myself was skeptical as to what difference a faster transfer rate could provide on a shooting experience till I did my own tests, putting Sony’s Memory Stick Pro Duo against the Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo HX. The new Pro-HG Duo HX is currently available in Japan, and although there is no US announced date, we expect them to quietly appear in store shelves in the following months.

[Via Impress Watch]