Amazon's Taking Portable Media Player Orders Now

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Creative's Zen Portable Media Center
with Windows Media Player 10

Creative's Zen Portable Media Center
with Windows Media Player 10 09/01/2004 08:55 PM
Review: Microsoft readies its next Windows Media Player as hardware makers start to ship portable video players. We look at the Creative Zen Portable Media Center as a prime early example. In wooing content producers, has Microsoft imposed too many shackles on users?

Amazon to take pre-orders for Portable
Media Center

Amazon to take pre-orders for Portable
Media Center 07/09/2004 01:46 AM
CNET Jul 9 2004 5:47AM GMT

Amazon to Take Pre-Orders for Portable
Media Center (Reuters)

Amazon to Take Pre-Orders for Portable
Media Center (Reuters) 07/08/2004 11:48 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on Thursday that online Web shopping site Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O) will begin taking orders for Portable Media Centers, a new line of portable devices for listening to music and viewing video content.

Portable Media Player

Portable Media Player 04/26/2004 01:58 AM
New Details: Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center.

New Details: Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center

 Category: Portable Media Players - April 25, 2004 

By Alexander Grundner

The Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center (PMC) will start shipping to North America this July. This is great news for people (myself included) who have been waiting to get their hands on the slickest of all the pre-production PMCs. We also found out (via some press material) that the Yepp YH-999 is the first PMC that is capable of receiving both standard TV broadcast signals and the future Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) signal (F.Y.I. Korea is upgrading to DMB in the second half of 2004).

Specifications:
400 Mhz PXA 225 CPU
3.5" TFT Color LCD - 320 x 240
Windows Media Video playback up to 700Kbps
20GB (1.8" HDD)
USB 2.0
Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery
Composite video output port (for TV playback)
Dimensions - 3.8" x 4.2" x 0.8"
Weight - 7.9 ounces

Media Formats:
MP3, WMA, WMV, JPEG [eHomeUpgrade]

Portable Media Centers -- A New Player
Arrives!!

Portable Media Centers -- A New Player
Arrives!! 09/23/2004 12:52 PM
Meet PAVIO -- The Portable Media Center with 30GB Capacity! The new Datexx Pavio Model PVR30T Portable Digital Theater packs a whole lot of features in a pocket sized unit! First, there’s a whopping 30GB storage capability, then the capabilities include TV viewing/recording/playback, Audio recording/playback (including MP3s) picture storage, playback, and data storage/transfer, using USB. This high tech recorder also stores and plays AVI files with video and mp3 sound by Dr. Divx®. Pavio’s 30GB Hard Drive is coupled with a bright 3.5" LCD Screen, a TV Tuner, and the supplied software includes Dr. Divx ® and Musicmatch®. Pavio also reads memory media - SD and CF. The unit is available now, with a suggested retail of $699.

Honhai CT-PMP58A Portable Media Player
Plays VOBs

Honhai CT-PMP58A Portable Media Player
Plays VOBs 07/28/2004 07:52 AM

Although the picture on the Honhai CT-PMP58A portable media player product page looks like it was done in MSPaint, the 5.7-inch unit does have one interesting feature (presuming it's a real product): the ability to play VOB files, the raw format in which video is stored on DVDs. That means that instead of transcoding DVDs into different, smaller formats to play on the PMP, you could instead just drop the whole DVD onto the internal 30GB hard drive. Granted, you'd only be able to get three or four on there before the drive filled up, but you'd also get all the extended features and whatnot that often gets sheared off when ripping a DVD to another format.

Somehow I have a feeling they didn't pay any licensing fees to Warner Bros. for that Harry Potter image, either. (Thanks, Irving!)

Read - Product Page [MicroCTC]

Archos preps Linux, Wi-Fi enabled
portable media player

Archos preps Linux, Wi-Fi enabled
portable media player 01/06/2005 05:04 PM
CES 2005 What, no host computer? No, and no PDA either

Microsoft Portable Media Player
Reference Design: I Was Told There Would
Be Sugarplums

Microsoft Portable Media Player
Reference Design: I Was Told There Would
Be Sugarplums 07/02/2004 08:20 AM

Want to see what a Microsoft Portable Media Player looks like without its hard, candy shell? Prepare yourself, because it's pretty amazing. It looks like a computer. I know! Crazy. Who would have thought electronics had hard drives and circuit boards and chips instead of delicious, nougaty cremes? My worldview: rocked.
Read [WindowsForDevices via /.]

Real Digital Media Integrates Macromedia
Flash Player with NEOCAST Media Player
XF

Real Digital Media Integrates Macromedia
Flash Player with NEOCAST Media Player
XF 06/17/2005 03:38 PM
Onlypunjab.com Jun 17 2005 3:31PM GMT

FrogPad Bluetooth Now Taking Pre-Orders

FrogPad Bluetooth Now Taking Pre-Orders 05/03/2004 08:01 AM
After what seems like an especially long wait, FrogPad is finally taking pre-orders for its one-handed Bluetooth keyboard. It looks like they've dropped the green casing, too (or was it blue?) for a new white plastic that looks very nice, and much less like a child's learning toy. The FrogPad...

Taking Pre-Orders for Black Option-Shift
K shirts

Taking Pre-Orders for Black Option-Shift
K shirts 07/24/2004 01:01 PM
The Option-Shift K shirts currently available through CafePress have been very well received. But the most common question we get asked (aside from What does it mean? ) is why don't we make them on black shirts? Well, we have finally decided it's time to get these bad boys printed properly and on the universally accepted uniform of the geek: the black T-shirt. Get more info here.

Apple Stops Taking Online iMac Orders;
New Models in Sep...

Apple Stops Taking Online iMac Orders;
New Models in Sep... 07/02/2004 04:53 AM
Macobserver.com - Fri Jul 2, 07:16 am GMT

Real Digital Media Releases Neocast
Media Player XF

Real Digital Media Releases Neocast
Media Player XF 03/22/2005 03:16 PM
Product Represents Company’s Next Generation Digital Signage and Narrowcast Network Media Player Appliance [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Toshiba's new "portable" DVD player

Toshiba's new "portable" DVD player 01/22/2004 12:57 PM
A new wall-mountable combination DVD player/15-inch LCD television from Toshiba that, with the addition of an optional battery pack, can double as a portable...

A portable DVD player from Motorola?

A portable DVD player from Motorola? 06/02/2004 11:09 PM
Engadget Jun 3 2004 3:53AM GMT

More Portable Player Competition

More Portable Player Competition 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
Financial Times reports that Microsoft will be moving into the portable music/video scene with its new Portable Media Center software. The software...

Windows Media Center Extender and
Portable Media Center Fact Sheets (PDF)

Windows Media Center Extender and
Portable Media Center Fact Sheets (PDF) 01/08/2004 07:34 PM

• Windows Media Center Extender (1.8 MB)
• Introducing Portable Media Centers (569 KB)

CES Showfloor: Samsung Portable DMB
Player

CES Showfloor: Samsung Portable DMB
Player 01/06/2005 08:21 PM

Yes, I finally made it on the showfloor! After hours of bopping around, trying to find just a drop of internet, I finally through all caution to the wind and actually looked at gadgets. Samsung's booth in particular was full of yummy things, like this nice-looking DMB portable television that we'll never get here (because we don't have DMB, not because they don't love us).

LG MF-SE 430, Portable Player/Subwoofer
Combo

LG MF-SE 430, Portable Player/Subwoofer
Combo 03/24/2005 04:51 AM

LG's MF-SE 430 just barely crossed the line between "something to report on" and "another boring MP3 player," but all is well that ends well. The system consists of two speakers and a subwoofer, where you can directly insert the MP3 player itself. This is pretty good convergence if you ask me, but I'm really too open-minded about stuff like this. Also, judging by the pics, the speakers are flat panel types. Price and essentially anything else is unknown, but it's not like something like this will ever exit LG's homeland.

LG's player+speaker combo [dapreview]

Yet Another Portable Video Player:
Talitor PV-330

Yet Another Portable Video Player:
Talitor PV-330 07/06/2004 03:09 PM

It won't win any prizes for being ugly -- oh wait, yes it will; congratulations! -- but here's another portable video player, this time from the UK: the Talitor PV-330. It's got the usual stuff, 40GB hard drive and a 3.5-inch LCD with a fairly low quality screen (looks like 480 x 234, although it can't even decode at that resolution). In fact, after factoring in the £325 purchase price I can't think of much to recommend this thing at all, unless you've resigned yourself to stepping into the portable video future in the most wretched way possible. (Thanks, Joe!)
Read - Sales Page [PeripheralCornerUK]
Read - Product Page [Talitor]
Read - UK reseller unveils 'video iPod' [TheRegister]

Leo and Patrick's Portable MP3 Player
Picks

Leo and Patrick's Portable MP3 Player
Picks 07/10/2004 10:05 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 11 2004 2:09AM GMT

Looking for a good portable DVD player
for travel

Looking for a good portable DVD player
for travel 05/11/2004 02:07 AM

Well, I'll be heading to Japan for a few weeks later in the month (I'm setting up some business meetings from May 26-29) and I'm looking for a good, relatively inexpensive portable DVD player for the trip. I'm really not an expert at this stuff, but I figured that some of you folks out there would be experts and could give me some recommendations on DVD players and reputable merchants. Here's my requirements:

1) Must be portable and have decent battery life (or an extra battery)
2) Must have a built-in screen
3) Must have a headphone jack
4) Should have speakers
5) Should be able to play multiregion DVDs (stuff I buy in Japan) as well as US DVDs
6) Should be able to plug it into a regular TV (NTSC) and display DVDs that way

I'd like to spend less that $500 on it, hopefully less than $300. Would totally appreciate some suggestions from you gadget mavens out there. I promise to post my review of the unit I purchase!

NeoSol Portable Video Player and TV

NeoSol Portable Video Player and TV 08/11/2004 08:44 PM

mPack 800 Portable Video Player

mPack 800 Portable Video Player 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Another day, another portable media player. This mPack P800 is of hearty, Taiwanese stock, with a heavy-lifting video compressor that will save video at resolutions even higher than its native 320 by 240 pixel screen. That's handy for playing back the videos on a better quality screen, after either copying them off the device or playing them via its video out. It supports a variety of formats (including OGG Vorbis and Xvid) and comes in 40GB or 80GB models. If the screen isn't a total travesty, it'll be a contender—if it makes it stateside.

Product Page [mPack via PVP4 U]

Orders Taken For 'Personal Media
Centers'

Orders Taken For 'Personal Media
Centers' 07/09/2004 01:26 PM
The first Personal Media Centers are now being offered for sale on Amazon.com, Microsoft Corp. anounced on Friday.

Promixis LLC, Releases NetRemote 1.1
Featuring MediaBridge 2.0, Expanding
Wireless Control of Users' Digital Music
Collection to Windows Media Player,
iTunes, Winamp and J. River Media Center

Promixis LLC, Releases NetRemote 1.1
Featuring MediaBridge 2.0, Expanding
Wireless Control of Users' Digital Music
Collection to Windows Media Player,
iTunes, Winamp and J. River Media Center 06/17/2005 03:26 PM
Promixis LLC today announced the immediate availability of NetRemote 1.1 featuring Media Bridge 2.0 at its website: http://www.promixis.com. NetRemote allows users to wirelessly view and control playback of their digital media using Windows Media Player, iTunes, J. River Media Center and Winamp. NetRemote runs on Windows and Pocket PCs. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

CES Showfloor: Samsung's 8-Inch Portable
DVD Player

CES Showfloor: Samsung's 8-Inch Portable
DVD Player 01/06/2005 08:21 PM

Here's Samsung's smallest new portable slimline DVD player. I know, it's not all that interesting, but I thought it was funny that it had a recessed circle in the top, yet that door on the left was were the DVDs went. It's like a dished-out ring has become the international symbol for "portable DVD" player.

Microsoft Launches Portable Music Player

Microsoft Launches Portable Music Player 10/30/2003 08:15 PM

80GB Xclef 500 Portable Player (Soon
137GB)

80GB Xclef 500 Portable Player (Soon
137GB) 05/11/2004 09:15 AM
DMC is offering an upgraded version of their DMC-Xclef 500 music player with an 80GB hard drive, making it the largest personal audio player available for the moment--and a 137GB model is in the works. The Xclef 500 is a nice enough player, too, with FM tuner and encoding, voice...

iPod Player Elevates Portable Music

iPod Player Elevates Portable Music 12/14/2003 09:02 AM
By M. Scott Skinner (Arizona Daily Star via MyAppleMenu)

AMD unveils portable video player chip

AMD unveils portable video player chip 01/04/2005 06:44 AM
Integrated video engine to offer DVD quality on a handheld

Dell's Portable Player Likes Linux (PC
World)

Dell's Portable Player Likes Linux (PC
World) 05/20/2004 08:17 PM
PC World - Linspire's Lsongs digital music management program now supports Dell DJ player.

Sony to ship portable video, MP3 player
next month

Sony to ship portable video, MP3 player
next month 05/27/2004 07:49 AM
Reg Kit Watch Yes, really MP3

HP to sell portable music player based
on iPod

HP to sell portable music player based
on iPod 01/08/2004 08:27 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 8 2004 8:12PM ET

Sony Shows Portable Audio, Video Player

Sony Shows Portable Audio, Video Player 05/28/2004 12:28 PM

40GB portable hard drive/card reader/MP3
player

40GB portable hard drive/card reader/MP3
player 12/12/2003 02:01 PM
New from Vosonic, a portable 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive with a built-in 6-in-1 card reader (for storing photos when you run out of...

Rumor: Xbox 2 Hard Drive Also a Portable
Music Player?

Rumor: Xbox 2 Hard Drive Also a Portable
Music Player? 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- So apparently I got a sexy anonymous rumor yesterday morning, but Thunderbird's wonky spam filtering decided it could wait to be posted until today.Regarding the Xbox 2 hard drive, I was snowboarding in Whistler, B.C. from February 19 - 26, 2004. We were in a bar called...

FCC is taking wrong turn on digital
media

FCC is taking wrong turn on digital
media 04/13/2004 06:07 AM
Public-interest advocate Gigi Sohn says that the FCC is perilously close to knuckling under to a powerplay that will limit the way consumers can use their digital media.

Tools Of The Trade: The portable
computer that turns into a TV or DVD
player and can run multimedia presentati

Tools Of The Trade: The portable
computer that turns into a TV or DVD
player and can run multimedia presentati 04/17/2004 05:54 PM
Independent Apr 17 2004 9:43PM GMT
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Amazon's Taking Portable Media Player Orders Now