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What A Portable Media Center Might Look Like

Posted by timothy on from the joy-of-buzzwords dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From the Redmond's answer to iPOD dept... While wandering the exhibitor aisles at Embedded DevCon, we were drawn to this slick looking reference design board in the Freescale (formerly Motorola Semiconductor) booth. The Portable Media Player Reference Design, a.k.a. "Jazz", is based on a Freescale i.MX21 embedded processor, runs Windows CE, and is compliant with Microsoft's Portable Media Center (PMC) standard. PMCs, Microsoft's answer to the iPOD, will initially support digital music and videos, digitally recorded television shows, and digital photos."

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  1. "feature" by dirtmerchant · · Score: 4, Funny

    The reason for the largish size:

    When the weight of the stack of EULAs equals that of the product, Microsoft releases.

    1. Re:"feature" by strictnein · · Score: 2, Funny

      speaking of size... What are the dimensions on this thing? For all we know it's about 2ft X 4ft (or .6096m x 1.2192m for the metric among us (they're everywhere!))

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  2. Pre-emptive?? by bairy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Real-time, pre-emptive multi-tasking kernel

    What the hell is pre-emptive in this case.. it does something before you tell it to? That's not so much clever as scary

    Also, "Real-time".. er, isn't it supposed to be realtime? Would be a tad annoying if it did it 5 mins after (aka Windows ME)

    Lastly, just cos everyone else has and I want a go...:
    Yes, but does it run linux?

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  3. Some missing features... by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the screenshot:
    My Music
    My Movies
    My TV Shows
    My Pictures
    Settings

    They forgot to include :
    My MPAA lawsuits
    My RIAA lawsuits
    My upcoming jail terms
    DirectPay (TM) money transfer

    It's about time somebody came up with a Personal Lawsuit Origanizer.

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    1. Re:Some missing features... by eofpi · · Score: 3, Funny
      It's about time somebody came up with a Personal Lawsuit Origanizer.
      Nah, then the lawyers would sue for interference with their business model....
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    2. Re:Some missing features... by Stevyn · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey I NEED those folders. Back when those folders didn't exist, I would just randomly throw music anywhere. I had 302 mp3's on my desktop at one time. Thank god microsoft stepped in with this innovation.

      And Settings? Who needs to adjust settings? What are you? Some terrorist trying to run "linux"?

  4. better name.... by drtomaso · · Score: 2, Funny

    It needs a better name. One that characterizes its functionality, and portability.

    Let me be the first to suggest "omni-pr0n-sent."

  5. Ahh yes, that "old" saying.... (?) by gosand · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nice looking board, no doubt about it, but to really make a splash they ought've made it 16:9 instead of 4:3. Just like the old car commercial says, "Wider is better."

    Windows CE - The Pontiac of Operating Systems.

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    1. Re:Ahh yes, that "old" saying.... (?) by mblase · · Score: 2, Funny

      Windows CE - The Pontiac of Operating Systems

      It's a curious coincidence that that acronym "P.O.S." stands for something else Windows CE is often called.

  6. Re:More of a PVR by sokoban · · Score: 2, Funny

    Little bit of a niche market there. I'd say it appeals more to the 18-35 still living at home guys who need a portable device for all their pr0n viewing needs. In other words, the /. crowd.

    Come on, can't you nerds take a joke? :-P

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