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GNU - Microsoft Drives a New Category of Digital Entertainment ByAnnouncing Availability of the First Portable Media CentersCreative Zen Portable Media Center Hits Store Shelves and FirstContent Services Come Online; TV Tuner Card Industry Announces BroadSupport for Video on the GoREDMOND, Wash., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that the first Windows Mobile(TM)-basedPortable Media Centers from Creative Labs Inc. will be available tothe public tomorrow at Best Buy and Creative.com and in the comingweeks from Amazon.com Inc., CompUSA Inc., Fry's Electronics, Good GuysInc. and other electronics retailers nationwide. Portable MediaCenters from Samsung Electronics and iRiver International will beavailable later this fall. Microsoft also solidified content sourcesfor Portable Media Centers, with the first online offerings from MLBAdvanced Media (MLB.com) and CinemaNow Inc., as well as support fromfour digital TV tuner card manufacturers and software companySnapStream Media Inc. These announcements give people an increasingrange of choices for video content they can watch any time, any place.Portable Media Centers are a new category of multimedia players thatallow people to enjoy all the digital entertainment they store ontheir PC -- recorded TV, music, movies and pictures -- on onedevice. Portable Media Centers are one of three new digitalentertainment products being introduced by Microsoft tomorrow,Sept. 2, including Windows Media(R) Player 10 and the MSN(R) MusicService. Windows Media Player 10 lets consumers easily discover, playand transport digital media around the home, on the PC or ontoportable devices. MSN will launch a preview release of its MSN Musicservice in the United States tomorrow, offering music fans access tomore than 1 million tracks licensed from all five major labels andmore than 3,000 independent labels. Tracks from MSN Music will beavailable for playback on Portable Media Centers in Windows MediaAudio format.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=43443610
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