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Encyclopedia > Portable Media Center

A Portable Media Center (PMC) is a hard drive-based portable media player device that can play digital video and audio files. A PMC can also be used to view JPEG image files. It runs on a specialized version of the Windows Mobile operating system and is currently produced by Creative Labs, iRiver, Samsung, and Toshiba. Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images which represent scenes in motion. ... Sound reproduction is the electrical or mechanical re-creation and/or amplification of sound, often as music. ... In computing, JPEG(pronounced JAY-peg; IPA: ) is a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images and not for movie files for which MPEG compression is used. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Creative Technology Ltd. ... Current iriver logo iriver (formerly iRiver) Co. ... Samsung Group is one of the largest South Korean business groupings. ... Toshiba Corporations headquarters in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo Toshiba Corporation sales by division for year ending March, 31 2005 Toshiba Corporation ) (TYO: 6502 ) is a Japanese high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ...


PMCs were introduced in the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show held in the United States. Creative worked in collaboration with Microsoft to come up with the design and concept of the initial product, but each vendor makes a slightly different version. The first company to launch the PMC was Creative, which launched its Creative Zen PMC in Comex Singapore on August 29, 2004 before introducing it in the United States on September 2, 2004. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


For video files, only Windows Media Video files can be played; the user must convert his or her files to this format before he can play it. Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of video codec technologies developed by Microsoft. ...


Synchronization of media files to the PMC is via Windows Media Player (WMP) application running on the PC. The PC needs to be running Windows XP SP1 or later releases. The PMC supports WMA and mp3 files of most bitrates. For video content, the PMC informs the PC of its media capabilities and the WMP application transcodes files if needed to a device suitable WMV file before transfer to the device .


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Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Portable Media Center Review (4446 words)
Later branded as Portable Media Centers (see my CES 2004 photo gallery for images), these devices are just now starting to ship from a variety of manufacturers, including Creative, iRiver and Samsung.
Naturally, the center of the strategy is a Windows XP-based PC running Windows Media Player 10 (WMP 10, see my review); for even better experience, you could substitute a Media Center PC, which offers a remote control-accessible user interface for all your digital media tasks, and can be used to record TV shows.
But the PMC gives you a version of Mac OS X's "beach ball of death" to let you know you're going to be waiting a bit (Figure).
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