Portable Media Centers in Action (Video)

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Portable Media Centers Score Double Play
With MLB.com Video Footage and
Amazon.com Preorder

Portable Media Centers Score Double Play
With MLB.com Video Footage and
Amazon.com Preorder 07/09/2004 08:40 AM
Today baseball fans can sign up to keep their eye on the ball -- wherever they go. Microsoft Corp. announced today from the All-Star Game fan activities that Amazon.com will exclusively offer preorders of Windows Mobile (TM) -based Portable Media Centers. The software company also announced that MLB Advanced Media (MLB.com) will make Major League Baseball content, including daily condensed and full games, extended baseball highlights, weekly bloopers and homerun reels, archival footage, and classic moments available as a subscription package or on a pay-per-view basis for download and playback on the new handheld multimedia device.

Portable Media Centers set to ship

Portable Media Centers set to ship 07/09/2004 05:10 PM
ZDNet Jul 9 2004 9:27PM GMT

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.

MS Portable Media Centers to ship
mid-Sept

MS Portable Media Centers to ship
mid-Sept 09/02/2004 04:02 AM
Creative Zen PMC arrives in US, coming to UK

First Portable Media Centers Hit Store
Shelves

First Portable Media Centers Hit Store
Shelves 09/02/2004 05:56 PM

New Portable Media Centers Likely to Be
Warmly Received

New Portable Media Centers Likely to Be
Warmly Received 07/15/2004 03:03 AM
New Research from The Diffusion Group Suggests that Consumers Will Embrace the PMC's if the Price is Right [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]

Leading Digital Entertainment Companies
Announce Support for Portable Media
Centers at CES 2004

Leading Digital Entertainment Companies
Announce Support for Portable Media
Centers at CES 2004 01/08/2004 07:34 PM
Microsoft Corp. tonight announced at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that leading digital entertainment companies CinemaNow Inc., EMI Music and Napster LLC( will support Windows Mobile (TM) software for Portable Media Centers, indicating that the new class of device will change the way people enjoy movies, recorded television, photos and music. In addition, in his keynote address at CES, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled and demonstrated the first working Portable Media Centers from Creative Labs Inc. (a subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd.).

Microsoft Drives a New Category of
Digital Entertainment By Announcing
Availability of the First Portable Media
Centers

Microsoft Drives a New Category of
Digital Entertainment By Announcing
Availability of the First Portable Media
Centers 09/02/2004 12:49 AM
Microsoft Corp. today announced that the first Windows Mobile (TM) -based Portable Media Centers from Creative Labs Inc. will be available to the public tomorrow at Best Buy and Creative.com and in the coming weeks from Amazon.com Inc., CompUSA Inc., Fry's Electronics, Good Guys Inc. and other electronics retailers nationwide. Portable Media Centers from Samsung Electronics and iRiver International will be available later this fall. Microsoft also solidified content sources for Portable Media Centers, with the first online offerings from MLB Advanced Media (MLB.com) and CinemaNow Inc., as well as support from four digital TV tuner card manufacturers and software company SnapStream Media Inc. These announcements give people an increasing range of choices for video content they can watch any time, any place.

Apple Portable Video/Media Device?

Apple Portable Video/Media Device? 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
This Sun-Times article discusses what technologies to expect to hit it big in 2004. The author speculates that Wide screen/HD TV, Portable Media ce...

Two S-Media Portable Video Players:
JoyToGo and Black Diamond

Two S-Media Portable Video Players:
JoyToGo and Black Diamond 06/08/2004 07:31 AM

DAPReview has shots of a couple of small, hard drive-based video players, both with planned release dates around September. The first is the JoyToGo (pictured left, and which I could have sworn we'd seen before, but Google says otherwise), built around either a 20 or 30GB 1.8" hard drive, with a 480 x 234 2.5" LCD screen, as well as built-in speakers and SD slot. It will also allow direct recording of video in MPEG-4 at rates of 640x480 at 25fps -- not bad, consider that's larger than its own screen.

And even though it's only a mock-up at the moment, I can't help but be excited by the 'Black Diamond' player, built around a tiny 1" hard drive with an as-yet-unspecified capacity. It only has a 294 x 228 resolution (with the same 2.5" screen size as the JoyToGo), and no speakers or anything like that, but if they could bump the resolution of the Black Diamond up to 480 x 234, I would be happy -- honored, even -- to carry around the little player in my pocket.

Both players are from S-Media, the makers of the moderately successful CoCoPod hard disk player.
Read [DAPreview]

Related
CoCoPod Music Player Reviewed [Gizmodo]
Shimy Shimy Cocopod [Gizmodo]

Computer centers aim to be where the
action is

Computer centers aim to be where the
action is 11/19/2003 03:54 AM
Boston Globe Nov 19 2003 2:52AM ET

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?

White-Box Media Centers To Benefit
Nvidia

White-Box Media Centers To Benefit
Nvidia 07/12/2004 02:11 PM
Nvidia Corp. is expected to be one of the beneficiaries of a new Microsoft Corp. program to provide its Windows Media Center software to system builders.

AMD to pump up Athlon64 line, looks to
media centers

AMD to pump up Athlon64 line, looks to
media centers 05/31/2004 07:07 PM
Sources are saying that AMD will use this week's Computex 2004 show in Taipei, Taiwan, to pull the wraps off of some revamped Athlon 64 goodies.

Portal Media Centers Set for August
Debut

Portal Media Centers Set for August
Debut 07/12/2004 12:12 PM
By the end of this summer, Microsoft partners Creative and Samsung are expected to be among the first vendors to particiate in rolling out the first generation of Portable Media Center (PMC) devices. The PMC takes an evolutionary leap forward past music-only playback to include next generation features such as video and still imagery.

MS cheers as Amazon offers 'iPod killer'
Media Centers

MS cheers as Amazon offers 'iPod killer'
Media Centers 07/12/2004 05:41 AM
The Register Jul 12 2004 10:03AM GMT

Linux To Reduce Boot Time for Windows XP
Media Centers

Linux To Reduce Boot Time for Windows XP
Media Centers 01/25/2004 12:49 PM
The new Linux-based InstantOn software -- designed to help Windows XP Media Center Edition PCs boot more quickly -- is aimed at taking advantage of the power of Intel's Pentium processors, not at fixing fragmented hard drives. The software integrates into the computer's BIOS and the operating system.

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)

More on the Portable Media Center

More on the Portable Media Center 09/04/2004 03:13 AM

What A Portable Media Center Might Look
Like

What A Portable Media Center Might Look
Like 07/01/2004 05:19 PM

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 Center - An Overview

Portable Media Center - An Overview 09/23/2004 01:33 PM
Channel 9 have posted a great video of the new Portable Media Center's. The video is an overview of the devices from Brett Bentsen (Product Unit Manager of PMCs).

Portable Media Centers allow you to have all of your favorite video, music, and pictures wherever you are. At WinHEC earlier this year, I personally demo'd the Creative Zen Portable Media Center and it was rather impressive. The ability to store all your entertainment on a device that has a good battery life (8 hours) and one that can output films/TV recordings onto a TV is the unique selling point of the PMCs. PMCs are likely to be a huge hit with kids and teens wanting to watch their favourite TV shows whilst travelling.

If you're still not sure what the PMC is or are interested in the devices then check out this great overview below!

Video: A look at the Portable Media Center
View: More Information on Portable Media Centers

Read full story...

Microsoft's Portable Media Center

Microsoft's Portable Media Center 10/29/2003 03:28 AM
Microsoft plans to launch software for a new portable media device next year. The device will allow users to listen to music and watch movies on the road. Microsoft hopes the software, called "Portable Media Center," will be an answer to Apple's iPod music device, which is currently the best selling digital music device on the market. The Portable Media Center will be manufactured by Creative, Sanyo and Samsung, and will be on store shelves for the second half of 2004.

PC Mag on iRiver's PMC-120 Portable
Media Center

PC Mag on iRiver's PMC-120 Portable
Media Center 09/03/2004 04:28 PM
Engadget Sep 3 2004 7:58PM GMT

LG PM70 Portable Media Center

LG PM70 Portable Media Center 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

Infosync has details of an as-yet-unreleased Portable Media Center device from LG, that looks a lot like the DVX-POD 7010, except that it's an actual Windows-branded unit. The first generation of PMC devices were crippled, in my experience, by their need to transcode every type of file into Windows Media versions before copying it to the unit. That made for needlessly long transfer times and really killed the devices usefulness for anyone not totally on board with Windows' codecs. J0rgen lists all sorts of file formats on the LG PM70, though, so if it can really play OGG Vorbis and Xvid natively, they might have a winner (this is presuming the market for portable video players won't be steamrolled by the PSP).

Preview: LG PM70 [InfoSync]

Companies toy with portable media
players

Companies toy with portable media
players 07/19/2004 09:35 AM
ZDNet Jul 19 2004 2:13PM GMT

Getting ready for Portable Media Center

Getting ready for Portable Media Center 01/06/2004 02:07 AM
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter article about Portable Media Center, Microsoft's new operating system that should start showing up in personal video and audio players from Samsung,...

More Linux Portable Media Players On The
Way

More Linux Portable Media Players On The
Way 01/03/2005 07:06 PM

ADV: Podcast and Portable Media Expo

ADV: Podcast and Portable Media Expo 03/30/2005 01:16 AM

Todd the Geek from Geek News Central along with a large number of Podcasters will be at the 2005 Podcast and Portable Media show being held in Ontario California.

Contest Announcement!
We want to see as many of the Geek News Central Podcast fans at the Expo as possible. If you send us proof of registration we will enter you into a drawing for a terrific prize each month leading up to the expo. The prize will be a $20.00 value and will be held each month starting in April.

This contest is run solely by Geek News Central and the Podcast Expo logo is a paid ad placement!

Microsoft's Media2Go becomes Portable
Media Center

Microsoft's Media2Go becomes Portable
Media Center 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
Media2Go, Microsoft's new operating system for personal video players, isn't called Media2Go anymore. From now on the software will be known as Portable Media Center. Now we know it's tough to let go of the old name that we had all gotten so attached to, but if it's any consolation, the first Portable Media Centers should start appearing from ViewSonic, Creative, iRiver, Samsung, and Sanyo sometime in the second half of next year. Read [Via eHomeUpgrade]...

Gates promotes portable media center at
CES

Gates promotes portable media center at
CES 01/06/2005 04:26 AM
ZDNet Jan 6 2005 8:50AM GMT

Amazon ready for Portable Media Center

Amazon ready for Portable Media Center 07/09/2004 11:43 AM
ZDNet Jul 9 2004 3:42PM GMT

Is the world ready for Portable Media
Center?

Is the world ready for Portable Media
Center? 09/10/2004 08:46 AM
Sympatico Sep 10 2004 1:13PM GMT

Microsoft Portable Media Center Reviewed

Microsoft Portable Media Center Reviewed 08/27/2004 01:22 PM
Slashdot Aug 27 2004 1:43AM GMT

Of stolen AMD CPUs, TiVo, and portable
media

Of stolen AMD CPUs, TiVo, and portable
media 01/03/2005 02:45 PM
A large number of pilfered AMD CPUs were recovered by Taiwanese police late last week. The news of their recovery comes as AMD unveils its new CPU aimed at portable media players.

New Microsoft Portable Media Center, Why
Not Just Use a Pocket PC?

New Microsoft Portable Media Center, Why
Not Just Use a Pocket PC? 07/11/2004 06:20 PM
bargainPDA.com Jul 11 2004 9:07PM GMT

Brett Bentsen - A look at the Portable
Media Center

Brett Bentsen - A look at the Portable
Media Center 09/23/2004 10:32 AM
Here's a look at Microsoft's new Portable Media Center with Brett Bentsen, product unit manager of the team that built the Portable Media Center.

Creative Portable Media Center Skewered

Creative Portable Media Center Skewered 07/17/2004 12:54 PM

If you'd like to read a review of the Creative Portable Media Center with "so much added (and useless) commentary that Gizmodo would be ashamed to publish it," ExtremeTech has a very unpositive, baseball-centric review. While I don't think that portable media centers are going to crash and burn, necessarily (although the ones hobbled by DRM might), I do think it's amusing for a company to promote products that are most easily (and most commonly) used by those that use Bit Torrent and other copyright-infringement tools, while with the other hand selling DRM systems to the television, movie, and music industries.
Re ad - Another Dumb Idea from Microsoft [ExtremeTech via eHomeUpgrade]

Related
Amazon Launches Portable Media Center Page, Preorders for Samsung Yepp YH-999, Creative Labs Zen [Gizmodo]

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item 07/17/2004 01:23 PM
Boston Globe Jul 17 2004 5:01PM GMT
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