Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Movement On The Media Front
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
A number of interesting announcements happened on the media player front today.
- First, Microsoft is delaying the release of Media2Go devices (which, by the way, has now been renamed to "Windows Mobile Software for Portable Media Centers") to mid-2004. In my opinion, they'd better stick to that timeframe; there's a lot of movement in the portable player front right now, and Microsoft should put effort into making sure they hit the market sooner than later.
- Dell released details on their music player and announced that they're partnering with MusicMatch Jukebox Downloads. I was curious to see how Jukebox's DRM works, and it's very similar to the iTunes Music Store: 3 machines may play the music at any given time, and there appear to be no other restrictions. The files are in WMA format. I wonder if these files can be played on Pocket PCs? If anyone knows, feel free to let us know. :)
