Portable Media Center's Officially Dead (No Kidding)

re: Portable Media Center's Officially Dead (No Kidding)

Matt Fletcher — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:03:33 GMT

Is there anything out there right now then that can play DVR-MS files without transcoding?

Having all my TV locked into a box in my lounge seems to me to be a waste of a good platform.

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re: Portable Media Center's Officially Dead (No Kidding)

Mark Sowul — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:41:46 GMT

That's a damn shame though not surprising; I have a gigabeat and its ability to sync everything with Media Center is awesome. It's too bad they have removed such capabilities (TV syncing etc) just as Media Center is available to a larger audience by way of Vista. So it goes.

re: Portable Media Center's Officially Dead (No Kidding)

JohnCz — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:13:31 GMT

Its embarrassing that the Zune doesn't support Media Center record tv shows out of the box. Not a good experience there..at least not yet.

I think you sum'd it up perfectly. I'm really concerned about the lukewarm OEM support. I just wish Microsoft would tell us what we can do influence OEM manufacturers. I don't understand what their gripe might be..there are 20+ million Media Center PCs out there.