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Electronista: Kingston and Paramount unveiled an unusual deal today that will see the latter’s movies made available on SD cards and USB flash drives.

The partners haven’t detailed the formats involved but say the movies will be available both in bundles as well as individually. Neither company has committed to a release date.

The gesture is one of the few commitments to providing movies on non-optical storage and is considered a means of spreading video to systems that don’t have Blu-ray or DVD drives, such as netbooks or handhelds. S

tandard definition movies are most likely as these can usually fit into 2GB or less of storage.

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DailyTech: Samsung is no stranger to flash memory technology and the company has announced numerous advances over the past year.

Yesterday, the company announced that it has developed a new 4GB multi-chip package (MCP) destined for mobile phones.

“We’ve now perfected a memory chip that allows handset manufacturers to significantly reduce development time while deploying an extremely robust design that will result in higher performance for smaller phones, with higher storage capacities,” said Samsung’s Jim Elliott.

Since its hip to put a brand on new products, Samsung call its new chip package “moviMCP” and the NAND flash memory included within the package is referred to as “moviNAND”.

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