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Microsoft Portable Media Center Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the movies-movies-everywhere dept.

dhopton writes "The first public review of the PMC that I've seen is interesting. It's critical in places, but also praises. It also covers Windows Media Player 10 to some extent. Overall, I'm looking forward to reviews of the non-Creative devices."

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  1. Microsoft Portable Media Center Reviewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    AND IT's SHIT !

    ...yeah, wtf you expect ? This is Slashdot ?

    1. Re:Microsoft Portable Media Center Reviewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      we expect slashdot to censor trolls, but we can tell they cater to linux trolls and hate groups..."+5 funny" ya, pure hate is the slashdot way, who cares if they appear more and more like other hate groups like the KKK

  2. Flamebait by Stevyn · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Damn it, another article on the main page to rack up 900 posts of people screaming about DRM and why linux is so much better and why microsoft is evil. This article becomes flamebait the second it's link is posted here.

    So in keeping with what I saw the other day, place all comments not about how DRM and microsoft are evil below this line:

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  3. Re:DRM? by SilentChris · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, you know, they'll never take off. I mean, that white one, the iPod, with the support for AAC files with DRM crust -- who's buying those?

    Oh, you say, "But these will *only* play DRM files". Au contraire. From what I'm reading, they'll play standard MPEG2s. A few hacks and we'll see DivX on these things.

  4. Non-Creative devices?! by psyconaut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess you've been asleep while Apple have been DOMINATING the personal audio market?!

    -psy

  5. Re:My favorite quote by dasmegabyte · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A lot of people have hate for the iPod because they want one but aren't willing to pay for one, ostensibly because it's "not worth it" and the high sticker implies that it is a status symbol. Same reason a lot of people hate Benzs, Cadillacs and BMWs.

    These people consider the success of the iPod to be a real thumb on the nose. How can it succeed when it's so expensive? How can it succeed when so many devices do the same thing, only with more features? How can it succeed without OGG/FLAC/DIVX/Radio/Microphone/Wireless/Free Cookies?

    The iPod is proof that an electronic device need not follow the commodity technology model to be successful. It's an alien concept for people who have for so long bought in to the idea that technology is a slim margin business. So, it enrages them. Because it's not popular for its tech aspect, but for its simplicity and HIPNESS. And hipness and simplicity are two things most technology pundits wouldn't understand.

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    Hey freaks: now you're ju