If you'd like to read a review of the Creative Portable Media Center with "so much added (and useless) commentary that Gizmodo would be ashamed to publish it," ExtremeTech has a very unpositive, baseball-centric review. While I don't think that portable media centers are going to crash and burn, necessarily (although the ones hobbled by DRM might), I do think it's amusing for a company to promote products that are most easily (and most commonly) used by those that use Bit Torrent and other copyright-infringement tools, while with the other hand selling DRM systems to the television, movie, and music industries.
Read - Another Dumb Idea from Microsoft [ExtremeTech via eHomeUpgrade]

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Amazon Launches Portable Media Center Page, Preorders for Samsung Yepp YH-999, Creative Labs Zen [Gizmodo]

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