I got a chance to fool around with Samsung ’s Portable Media Center last Nox for a minute at the pre - event closet boozing for the DigitalLife show . I should have taken a image of the YH-999 with something next to it for reference , but you ’ll just have to hope me when I say it ’s much smaller in person and every bit as nice looking for as it appears in person . I sort of hate the Game Boy - manner layout of the originative and iRiver PMCs — I ca n’t put my finger’s breadth on it , incisively , but they just seem too large and gawky , especially the Creative brick — so something thinner and my tablet - ilk is much more my speed . That being said , the thing still runs Microsoft ’s Portable Media Center software , which intend it ’s basically only good for keep an eye on WMV . That ’s great if you ’ve already bought into the Media Center platform , but for the rest of us who use a variety of standards , the conversion process is painful .
So all that is to say , if you ’re going to hop on the Microsoft portable train , the Samsung has given me the good stamp so far .
Also , I learned a little more about TiVoToGo after the jump .
Oh , and I in conclusion catch TiVo to commit to a freeing particular date for TiVoToGo : Fourth Quarter ( okay , I suck at interrogation ) . Their Q4 starts November 1st , so that ’s probably as soon as we could require it . One important point , though , is that the initial execution will be copying files to laptops and burning videodisk of memorialise show , using Windows Media Player to manage the DRM and a sure DVD burning software package ( I do n’t retrieve what it was specifically , but I presume they ’ll provide it)—no portable video players for now , although it is in the cards . But burn videodisc ! That ’s not TiVoToGo ; That ’s TiVoToStay .
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