Some pics of PMC on iriver worldwide website

[Philip_0729]

if you go to iriver.com and click on worldwide home either you will see the PMP or the PMC - coming soon with pictures if you dont see the new PMC go back to the main page and click it again,or refresh, and keep trying till it comes up, i promice its their, your opinions please...

[walshie_au]

Its a piece of CRAP!!! Dont even bother!! Its Windows!!!!! Therefore no AVI, MPEG4 support no nothing, only plays WMV, WMA and MP3. Thats IT!!!! Do not waste your money!!!

[altered_beast]

Originally Posted by walshie_au

Its a piece of CRAP!!! Dont even bother!! Its Windows!!!!! Therefore no AVI, MPEG4 support no nothing, only plays WMV, WMA and MP3. Thats IT!!!! Do not waste your money!!!

I agree. If for some strange reason I felt it necessary to have a portable video player, it had better support avi, mp4, DivX and Xvid. Otherwise, given my media collection, it would be useless.

[Philip_0729]

hey i do not intend on buying one just letting the people who are interested know

if i was going to buy a PVP i would choose Archos AV400

[Lone]

I like it's design of the PMC, but Microsoft's involvement means no codec support and no abundance of iRiver features.

[kagelump]

PMC...
PORTABLE BSOD!!! XD

*bsod = blue screen of death

[1121]

Yes, just saw it.

My thoughts were that the PMC is kind of like the PMP with a mix of Creative's PMC.

It has the edges of Creative but the curves of the PMP...

and I hope it'll have the battery life of a Creative and the coolness of the PMP...

[Astec]

Its absolutly hideous. I hate the design, its windows so as has been said it will support nothing, its like an iPod really, only mp3 and aac.

The OS will probably crash like something stupid, as has been said BSOD all the time, and of course the famous "bill gates needs more money please make a check for $250 payable to the microsoft corporation to contine playing your music" this will of course happen either every 25minutes or each time the you turn it on to play tracks, whichever comes last as microsoft dont want to annoy you too much.

PMP forever the freedom of the linux OS is so liberating and the prospect of more codec support is a great chance, the PMC is more expensive, it runs microsoft software, and it IMHO looks crap.

[kidkirby]

this is not a good trend for iriver...sleeping with microsoft!
what happened to iriver being a multi codec player??
this really bites!

[altered_beast]

Originally Posted by kidkirby

this is not a good trend for iriver...sleeping with microsoft!
what happened to iriver being a multi codec player??
this really bites!

I agree this is not good news. The new H series of players apparently don't support OGG any more either.

I have always considered lack of DRM support a positive thing! The M$ arrangement I'm sure is just going to push M$'s planned online music store. Honestly, if I'm going to buy a DRM-limited player, it's going to be the most popular (i.e. iP*d), because at least then they are more hacks for it.

[Makaveli]

Bah.. who do u think the target market is...

v'rich 10-12yo's who don't know a thing about video playback.. and buy and $800+AUD multimedia player and use it as a mp3 player (till they get bored).

or 40+yo's who walk through the airport and buy one in the spur of the moment because its "cool" although they dnt know what it does till they read the manual and say "awww dang".

A blind theif with no hands.

Oh.. and microsoft freaks..