Portable Media Center
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A Portable Media Center (PMC) is a hard drive-based portable media player (PMP). Unlike other PMPs, it runs on a specialized version of Windows Mobile. Manufacturers include Creative, Philips, iriver, Samsung, and Toshiba.
PMCs were introduced in the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, with the announcement of Creative's Zen Portable Media Center. The Singapore-based company worked in collaboration with Microsoft to create the initial product, but each vendor makes a slightly different version.
All PMCs play audio in MP3 and photos in JPEG. Also, they can support Microsoft's proprietary media formats: Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video. Other video formats will be transcoded via synchronization though Windows Media Player.
