[CCID News] In order to grab the first-generation portable multimedia player operating system market, the competition between the two major enemy camps between the window and Linux has entered a white heat. A large camp supports Microsoft's Portable Multimedia Center (PMC), and another camp supports Linux's personal multimedia player (PMP), both sides, and in large market circles.
In January of this year, Microsoft has signed a sales license contract with a world-leading portable multimedia player manufacturer such as Samsung, Reigncom, Creative and ViewSonic. Taiwan's Creative has recently introduced a portable multimedia player "ZEN PMC" pre-installed Microsoft PMC operating system, while Samsung Electronics and Reigncom plans to launch pre-installed PMC portable multimedia players "YH-999" in October. "PMC-100".
PMC will launch a positive marketing strategy, claiming to run the digital content on the PC. PMC supports "Windows Media Player 10" and WMV, but it does not support free mobile image files such as AVI, ASF, and DivX.
At the same time, another MP3 player manufacturer that supports Linux-based PMP camps include MP3 player manufacturers such as Thompson RCA, DIGITAL CUBE, DM Technology, and Rifa, which attempts to make greater market share by supporting a variety of formats. In addition to supporting DIVX, the PMP camp can also allow the user's MP3 to utilize a large number of PCs, while there is no need for any independent programs. Although Sony does not support DivX due to copyright issues, Linux-based PMP has been accepted.
A manager of Digital Cube said that "the market's acceptance of the Microsoft 'Window Media Center" will greatly affect the promotion of PMC, the window media center is the operating system bundled with consumer electronics and PC. "
An industry observed person said that "PMC camps cannot ignore users' demand for free mobile image files, recently PMP-based portable multimedia player before the PMC camp, is still difficult to lead this market in the future. Agency. "
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