Mossberg: Portable Media Centers not ready for prime time

Wall Street Journal tech writer Walt Mossberg says Portable Media Centers–handheld, hard disk-based video and audio players–are not ready for the average user. He reviews two such devices from Samsung and Creative, saying: “Based on my tests, I can’t recommend either player for mainstream, nontechie users. This is not so much because of the design of the players themselves. It’s because there’s so little video content available to play on them, and Microsoft’s software does a poor job of transferring commercial content to the players…

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