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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. Links to mirrors of video and photos by tao_of_biology · · Score: 5, Informative
    Hey, since it's getting slashdotted already. ;)

    He has a link to mirrors of his photos and videos of the device (which I'm mainly interested in anyway). They are:

    WMV: External Overview of Creative Zen PMC (temporarily down) Mirror 1 Mirror 2
    WMV: Demo of Portable Media Center UI (temporarily down) Mirror 1 Mirror 2
    Gallery of Images from Creative Zen PMC Mirror 1 Mirror 2

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  2. I saw these things in California by betterthanducttape · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was in Silicon Valley last month when Microsoft debuted these at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology. Honestly, I loved the things.

    There are three models and all of them are excellent. All of them feature TV-out as well which was truly awesome.

    The software was excellent, the GUI was pretty intuitive, and the formats it supports are entirely up to the manufacturer outside of WMV and WMA. They can support whatever they want, be it OGG, AAC, whatever.

  3. Re:Maybe it's just me but... by dasmegabyte · · Score: 5, Informative

    You may be on to something. Check this out. If this is as it seems, Corey's not a 20 year old student...he's been working with Microsoft for 8 years.

    Fucking insidious.

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