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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.

  2. 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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  3. 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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