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What are Portable Media Centers?

Fri, Jan 26, 2007

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Portable Media Centers put all of your favorite video, music, and pictures at your fingertips wherever you are. Take digital entertainment from your PC with you on the go, including recorded TV shows, downloaded videos, home movies, music, and photos. With Windows Mobile™ software featuring an easy-to-use, familiar Windows® Media Center Edition interface, Portable Media Centers let you enjoy immediate access to all of your favorite entertainment — anytime, anywhere.

Portable Media Centers let you take all your entertainment with you on the go — music from your computer plus media information such as album art, content ratings, and playlists as well as digital video and pictures.
File Type Support

These devices will let you play video, music and pictures that are transferred from your computer, including Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Image, MP3, JPEG and TIFF files.
OS Support
Portable Media Centers will work with any version of Windows XP, including Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Portable Media Centers will also work with Windows XP Media Center Edition, allowing you to take all of the recorded television shows recorded on your Media Center PC with you to enjoy anywhere.
Hardware
Creative’s Portable Media Center has a storage capacity of 20GB or higher. With a 20GB hard drive you can hold up to 87 hours of video, over 300 hours of music or 50,000 pictures with all disk drive space dedicated to either video, audio, or pictures.

Data Transfer
Your entertainment will be easily and automatically transferred to your Portable Media Center using smart sync technology delivered in a future release of Windows Media Player. Smart sync technology will enable automatic, intelligent synchronization of music with next generation portable music players as well as synchronization of music, photo, TV content, and movies with Portable Media Centers.
With smart sync technology that will be available in Windows Media Player, you will be able to transfer the content of your Windows Media Player media library to the device. This includes music copied from a CD, pictures from a digital camera, home movies from a digital video camera, TV shows recorded using a Media Center PC or other personal video recorder applications and videos downloaded from the Internet. In addition, Portable Media Centers will play premium downloaded digital music and video, including over 500,000 WMA tracks from leading music services including Napster, Best Buy, Buy Music, Music Now and many more, and movies from content providers such as CinemaNow.
Specifications

  • 3.8” TFT Color LCD
  • 20 GB or higher HDD
  • Rechargeable battery (Li-Ion)
  • Microsoft Portable Media Center Platform
  • Digital Multimedia Player - (Plays Windows Media Video 7, 8 and 9, Windows Media Audio 8, Windows Media Image, MP3, JPEG and TIFF files)

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