More of my sites

WinInfo Daily News
SuperSite for Windows
Windows IT Pro Magazine
Connected Home
Thurrott Dot Com
Windows Weekly at TWIT

About this site

For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Amazon offers Portable Media Center pre-orders

Amazon: "Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers are handheld entertainment devices that make it easy to store and play recorded TV, movies, home videos, music, and photos transferred from a PC with Windows® XP--so you can enjoy to your favorite entertainment anytime and anywhere you want. Take your entire Windows Media Player music library with you, including all your favorite songs, artist and track information, playlists, ratings, and even album art. The Windows Media audio formats provide unmatched quality at smaller file sizes so you can take more of your favorite music with you--up to 5,000 songs. Support for Windows Media offers access to the widest selection of music and video download services on the Internet. Portable Media Centers let you do more than play music. Move TV shows recorded on a Windows XP Media Center PC or PC with Windows XP-based TV tuner card to watch up to 80 of hours of TV on the road. Store up to 80 hours of recorded TV.* That lets you take every single episode of The Simpsons, from its 1988 premiere through the 2003 season, with you wherever you go. You can even connect to a TV or entertainment center to watch videos with friends and family. Now you can take up to 80 hours of your favorite movies with you wherever you go, whether they are recorded on your Windows XP PC, downloaded from the Internet, or created yourself using a digital video camera.* Windows Media Player makes it easy to sync content with your Portable Media Center, either automatically or just what and when you choose. Did you ever notice that most of your digital pictures end up stored away on your computer and that you never get around to printing them? Now you can take the tens of thousands of pictures stored on your PC with you and share with friends and family wherever you are--you can even display them in a slideshow set to music. Portable Media Centers make accessing and viewing your favorite photos and slideshows easier than ever."

Preorder:
Samsung Yepp YH-999 20 GB Portable Media Center
Creative Labs 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center

Hey, it's just like the iPod Mini (also shipping in October), except that no one is pretending they're shipping now!

[ Posted at 8:01 PM | Permalink ]