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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. Homestar... by hypermike · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'm Corey Gouker (obviously); I'm a Media Center MVP who hangs out in the Microsoft newsgroups...
    I'm pretty much an average geek...

    As Homestar would say: More like NOT AVERAGE GEEK!

    --
  2. My favorite quote by PunkPig · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "...so I had high hopes that they might be a breakthrough device that would fit my needs perfectly. Something that would really do damage to Apple's iPod."

    This guy has a real hate on for Apple doesn't he?

  3. Re:DRM? by e9th · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah. Gouker even seems to feel that licensing, rather than owning, music is the way to go. Maybe it is if all you listen to is here today, gone tomorrow top-40 crud that you'll be bored with in a month.

  4. What about Archos? by cj171 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Archos has had these kinds of portable media players out for at least a year now..with no drm, and recording from video sources to mpeg4 or divx I believe. Definitely something fishy in that blog

  5. Re:Maybe it's just me but... by huchida · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe it's a setup too. Google "Corey Gouker"... Wade through some of the results, interesting what you'll find.

    This is either the biggest-- and most clueless-- Microsoft fanboy in existence, or Microsoft's ad department is creating a fake blogger (actually, blog community) to give their products some "street cred."