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Monday, March 01, 2004

Coming soon ... to a screen near you

Chicago Sun-Times: "Last year was the year of the camera phone, digital music players (especially Apple's iPod) and satellite radio ... You might have an iPod loaded with 7,500 or 10,000 of your favorite tunes, but you can't watch TV on the tiny two-inch screens. But that's changing with a new category of devices that do what the digital music players do plus show video. The information in most cases will be downloaded from your computer. 'You can watch Will & Grace or your favorite movie,' said Rob Enderle, a Silicon Valley-based analyst, 'Portable media centers are like iPods on steroids.' Microsoft has developed Windows Mobile software for the portable media center platform that has been adopted by Creative, iRiver International, Sanyo, Samsung Electronics and ViewSonic Corp. Apple is testing a [copycat] device in Silicon Valley."

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