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Old 12-18-2016, 12:49 PM
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SD card BS or not?

G'day folks,

For Christmas my daughter is getting an action cam for her many skate boards and bicycles (so shhhh keep it a secret until after Christmas)...

...chap in shop was banging on about special "action cam SD cards".

I was quite rude and said that sounded like a load of horse **** - surely 1080p HD doesn't need anything "special".

According to the interweb 1080p bit rates are between 3000 and 6000 Kbps (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en) so a class 10 SD card {https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/speed_class/} with 10Mbps has got to be good enough...

...still I was wondering if anyone here has actually noticed any benefits (other than emperor's new clothes) with the faster "special" SD cards being sold?
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