"Digital entertainment mainstay Creative today announced the commercial availability of its Zen Portable Media Center (PMC), the first device to hit shelves based on Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform. Featuring a 3.8" colour display as well as audio and video playback capabilities, the new device has beat upcoming offerings from Samsung and iRiver to the punch," reports Infosync World.
"As Creative's top model in its Zen series, which also comprises other products, the Zen PMC offers a sizeable 20 GB HDD, which Creative claims is capable of storing up to 85 hours of video. The device, which claims up to 7 hours of video playback and up to 22 hours of audio playback courtesy of its exchangeable and rechargeable battery, also features USB 2.0 and is capable of viewing pictures."
Comment: this isn't the first "video iPod" type of machine, not even counting things like Pocket PCs that can also play music and videos. It is just the first to use Microsoft's PMC software.
