What are Portable Media Centers? 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.
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Features
Watch up to 85 hours of movies,
recorded TV or home videos
Store and listen to over 10,000 songs
Carry and enjoy 100,000 photos
Large, high resolution 3.8" TFT LCD
Screen
Plays all popular formats including
WMV, WMA, MP3, and JPG
Technical Specifications
Video Playback Format: Windows Media Video (WMV) 7,
8 and 9, (Professional, Lossless, Standard), MPEG-1,
MPEG-29; DVR-MS; MPEG
Audio Playback Support: Windows Media Audio (WMA),
MPEG-Layer II Audio, MP3, AU, u-law, SND
Photo Format Support: JPEG, PhotoStory
Signal-to-Noise Ratio: Up to 90dB
Interface: USB 2.0 (backward compatible with USB
1.1)
Battery Life: Up to 12 hours continuous audio
playtime or up to 3 hours of continuous video playtime
Dimensions: 144 millimeters by 80.7 millimeters by
27millimeters
Box Contents
Creative
Zen Portable Media Center, Power Adapter, Li-Ion
Rechargeable Battery, Protective Carrying Case, Pair of
Earphones, USB 2.0 cable, Video & Line Out cable , Quick
Start guide, Installation CD
PC Minimum System Requirements
Microsoft
Windows XP, Intel Pentium II 300MHz or AMD K6 -2 266Mhz
(Pentium III 450MHz or higher recommended for MP3
encoding), 128 MB, USB 1.1 port (USB 2.0 recommended for
faster transfer), 300 MB (TBC) free hard drive space (more
for audio content storage), CD-ROM drive with digital
audio extraction support
